| HK-230986-15 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Implementation Grants | Emory University | Enhancing and Sustaining www.slavevoyages.org | 9/1/2015 - 2/28/2018 | $324,992.00 | David | | Eltis | Allen | E. | Tullos | Emory University | Atlanta | GA | 30322-1018 | USA | 2015 | History, General | Digital Humanities Implementation Grants | Digital Humanities | 324992 | 0 | 324991.73 | 0 | The enhancement of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (also known as slavevoyages.org) to add additional records about the intra-American movement of enslaved persons and to recode the underlying database to allow for long term sustainability.
Slavevoyages has become the basic reference tool for anyone studying the transatlantic slave trade, and is used widely by teachers, genealogists, and scientists as well as scholars of slavery and the slave trade. The site is nevertheless facing an uncertain future, possibly extinction, as the code in which it was written is made obsolete by evolving server operating systems. |
| PA-51985-06 | Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects | Emory University | The Expanded, On-Line Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database | 6/1/2006 - 6/30/2010 | $324,011.00 | David | | Eltis | Martin | Douglas | Halbert | Emory University | Atlanta | GA | 30322-1018 | USA | 2006 | History, General | Preservation/Access Projects | Preservation and Access | 324011 | 0 | 324011 | 0 | This award will support the addition essential records to an electronic database on transatlantic slave voyages. The work will add 8,000 new entries, enhance an additional 9,000 entries, and create a Web-based resource to serve with specialized interfaces for scholars and researchers, as well as K-12 students and the general public.
January 1, 2008, marks the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade in the U.K and the U.S. This project proposes to commemorate this anniversary by creating an interactive, Web-based resource about the transatlantic slave trade. Using as its foundation information about 27,233 voyages documented in the renowned Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database CD-ROM (Cambridge 1999), this project will produce a revised and significantly expanded database that will contain more than 35,000 voyages—fully 90 percent of the slave trade—and will be published via the Internet. The project will present the database and its auxiliary materials in a two-tier format: one designed for professional researchers and another for K-12/generalist audiences. |
| PW-50120-08 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Emory University | The African Origins Portal: Ethnic Roots of Africans Entering the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1819-1845 | 1/1/2009 - 9/30/2012 | $349,641.00 | David | | Eltis | | | | Emory University | Atlanta | GA | 30322-1018 | USA | 2008 | African History | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 349641 | 0 | 349641 | 0 | The creation of a Web-based resource on the names, cultural identification, and migration patterns of Africans in the trans-Atlantic slave trade between 1819 and 1845.
We know much about the homelands and cultures of European migrants to the Americas. This project will set in motion the discovery of the as-yet unknown backgrounds of millions of their coerced African counterparts by creating an interactive, freely available Web-based resource about the migration histories of Africans forcibly carried to the Americas via the transatlantic slave trade. Using as its base detailed data on 67,000 liberated Africans (from Courts of Mixed Commission slave registers between 1819 and 1845 that documented individuals freed from slaving vessels), this African Origins portal will accomplish two related goals: 1) present and contextualize detailed geographic, ethnic, and linguistic data on movements of peoples and cultures from Africa to the Americas, and 2) foster collaboration between scholars and African Diaspora communities in order to enhance our knowledge of this African migration. |
| PW-51254-11 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Emory University | The Origins of Identities of Africans Entering the Transatlantic Slave Trade | 10/1/2011 - 6/30/2013 | $27,000.00 | David | | Eltis | | | | Emory University | Atlanta | GA | 30322-1018 | USA | 2011 | U.S. History | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 27000 | 0 | 27000 | 0 | Supplemental work to add information to the database reflecting research in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and London, United Kingdom. The work will integrate information from slave trade registers surviving in England and Sierra Leone. The work will additionally accomodate new, digitized photographic material into the database. Finally, the supplement will allow for the retention of the project manager's services for six additional months.
Supplement funding is requested for the following: For additional research in Sierra Leone, Freetown, and London. To integrate the London and Sierra Leone registers. To accomodate new photographic material. Administrative support to allow retention of services of project manager for six months. |