Program

Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

Period of Performance

10/1/2011 - 6/30/2013

Funding Totals

$27,000.00 (approved)
$27,000.00 (awarded)


The Origins of Identities of Africans Entering the Transatlantic Slave Trade

FAIN: PW-51254-11

Emory University (Atlanta, GA 30322-1018)
David Eltis (Project Director: September 2011 to October 2013)

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.