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Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Office of Digital Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access

Overview of the slave trade out of Africa, 1500-1900.
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Overview of the slave trade out of Africa, 1500-1900.

Courtesy of slavevoyages.com

Track the journeys of over 10-12.5 million Africans forced into slavery with this searchable database of passenger records from 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages.

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