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Non-Western, Records estimate 12.5 million Africans were transported on over 41,000 voyages, primarily from European nations. The data base covers around 80% of these voyages with some estimates suggesting the total could be higher.

Created by David Eltis, 2008

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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database now comprises 36,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world. They provide information about vessels, routes, and the people associated with them, both enslaved and enslavers. Sources are cited for every voyage included. Users may search for information about a specific voyage or group of voyages. The website provides full interactive capability to analyze the data and report results in the form of statistical tables, graphs, maps, a timeline, and an animation.

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Drawing on extensive archival records, this digital memorial allows analysis of the ships, traders, and captives in the Atlantic slave trade. The three databases below provide details of 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, 10,000 intra-American ventures, names and personal information.

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Western, The slave trade brought millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas where they faced brutal conditions and the deadly middle passage despite being banned in 1807 illegal slave trading continued until the civil war in 1861

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Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Transatlantic Slave Trade brought twelve million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World as part of a broad exchange of trade goods between England, West Africa, South America, the West Indies, and the United States. While the largest numbers of slaves were sent to South America, particularly Brazil, and the West Indies, smaller numbers arrived in the United States where Americans purchased them for labor. Most often from the west and central portions of the African continent, these enslaved people were kidnapped, forced to endure extreme violence, ripped from family and familiar language and culture, and treated as property. They endured the horrors of the Middle Passage, the journey by ship from West African slave trading ports to the New World during which an estimated two million captives died. Once in the United States, enslaved Africans were sold at auctions across the country, from the rice plantations of the South Carolina coast to the small businesses and farms of the rural Northeast. Both England and the United States outlawed the importation of slaves through slave trading in 1807. This did not fully prevent illegal slave trading to the United States, which persisted until the American Civil War. This primary source set include documents, photographs, artwork, and maps that tell the story of the slave trade and its impact.

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The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

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Western, The transatlantic slave trade saw Europeans- powers transport 12.5 million Africans to the Americas, where they were forced into labor on plations. The trade led by Portugal, Spain, Britain, France, and the Netherlands, made great wealth that fueled economic and political growth in Europe and the Americas. Profits from slavery shaped industries, cities and cultures making a key part of western history.

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A collaboration of UNESCO's Slave Route Project, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and dozens of sites and museums across the globe, Slavery and Remembrance aims to broaden our understandings of a shared past shaped by slavery and slave trade, the ways in which we collectively remember and forget, and the power of legacies to forge our present and future.

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Through sites and objects from across the globe, Slavery and Remembrance aims to broaden our understandings of a shared and painful past, the ways in which we collectively remember and forget, and the power of legacies to shape our present and future.

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This was published in 1760 and it was a poster telling people to buy salves. In the poster it says they might have smallpox and are no even calling them humans they call them cargo. we do not have any info on who made this. got image off of library of congress.

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This is a picture that shows how the Africans got captured and on they got dragged around after they got captured. The things around there necks were called wooden yolks and they made it so it was very uncomfortable for the slaves if they tried to resist or tried to escape, it would cut against there throats and necks and could either really hurt them or even kill them from the constant rubbings and scratching.