Description The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is […]
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Slave Biographies, Atlantic Database Network
Description Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network is an open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. It includes the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of […]
The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Laws
Description Jenny Martinez argues that the foundation of the movement that we know today as human rights was a product of one of the nineteenth century’s central moral causes: the movement to ban the international […]