The Expanded, On-Line Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

FAIN: PA-51985-06

Emory University (Atlanta, GA 30322-1018)
David Eltis (Project Director: July 2005 to October 2010)
Martin Douglas Halbert (Co Project Director: July 2005 to October 2010)

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.

Associated Products

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Book)
Title: Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Author: David Richardson
Author: David Eltis
Abstract: This is a three hundred page analysis and depiction of the transatlantic slave trade. It incorporates 189 full color maps derived from the data generated by the grant. It has received four prizes and one honorable mention since its publication.
Year: 2010
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3AAtlas+of+the+Transatlantic+Slave+trade+au%3AEltis&fq=yr%3A2010..2010+%3E&qt=advanced&dblist=638
Access Model: Open
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9780300124606

Prizes

Louis Gottschalk Prize
Date: 12/31/2012
Organization: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Abstract: This prize is for an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century and carries an award of $1,000. Louis Gottschalk (1899-1975) second President of ASECS, President of the American Historical Association, and for many years Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, exemplified in his scholarship the humanistic ideals that this award is meant to encourage.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize (co-winner)
Date: 4/12/2011
Organization: Cleveland Foundation

Rawley Book Prize (co-winner)
Date: 1/3/2012
Organization: American Historical Association
Abstract: The James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History was created in 1998 in accordance with the terms of a gift from James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. It is offered annually to recognize outstanding historical writing that explores aspects of integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century. The prize was established in accordance with the terms of a gift from James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

RR Hawkins Award
Date: 2/3/2011
Organization: American Publishers Association
Abstract: Prize is for the most outstanding scholarly work in all disciplines of the Arts and Sciences

Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America (Article)
Title: Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America
Author: Alex Borucki
Author: David Eltis
Author: David Wheat
Abstract: Borucki et al present new data on transatlantic slave arrivals and a comprehensive examination of the intra-American trans-imperial traffic, thereby offering a fresh assessment of the slave trade to the Spanish Americas. Their analysis of this material leads to a new appreciation of not only the African presence in the Spanish colonies, but also--given the links between slavery and economic power before abolition--the status of the whole Spanish imperial project. Overall, they find, more enslaved Africans permanently entered the Spanish colonies than the whole British Caribbean, making the Spanish Americas the most important political entity in the Americas after Brazil to receive slaves.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/120/2.toc
Access Model: subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Historical Review
Publisher: American Historical Association

Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (Web Resource)
Title: Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Author: David Eltis
Abstract: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on more than 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history
Year: 2008
Primary URL: http://www.slavevoyages.org

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