| 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. |