Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: a Revised and Enlarged Database, 1500-1867

The Trans-Atlantic slave trade remains a major field of academic enquiry and public interest. Work by numerous scholars over three decades culminated in the publication in 1999 of a CD-ROM containing data on 27,233 slaving voyages between 1519 and 1867. Unprecedented in scale and detail, this unique record nevertheless had major gaps, notably with respect to the early history of slave trafficking as well as that to Brazil more generally. These deficiencies have been addressed in this project by conducting new research in Angolan, Brazilian, Portuguese, and other archives, and by incorporating the results of this new research in a revised and enlarged version of the database published in 1999.<br>