"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most ...

Now in its seventh year, the website “Voyages: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database” is one of the most sought-after resources among humanities scholars and researchers, registering at least 1,000 ...

Some six million slaves were transported from Africa during the slave trade. Over time, the identity of many of the Africans has been lost. But now, Emory University has put together a database called ...

The recent opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is part of a long and slow national reckoning on race, but some chapters on race are still missing from ...

ATLANTA — Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...

Historians say that a new Web database could help bring millions of blacks closer to their African slave ancestors, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has long been possible for white ...

ATLANTA -- Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...

And finally today, a key chapter in the origin story of Africans in America took place over water. Historians estimate that some 36,000 ships brought nearly 12.5 million Africans across the Atlantic ...

ATLANTA — Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...

An archeological dig in 2015 at the site where Yarrow Mamout, who had been enslaved but later gained his freedom, was believed to have been buried in Georgetown. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) ...