Enslaved - Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade
A linked open data platform for the study and exploration of the historic slave trade that allows searches across multiple datasets of original documentation.
Liberated Africans
Documents over 250,000 people who were taken off slave ships in the international effort to abolish the trans-Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades in the nineteenth century and listed in registers compiled in international courts.
Legacies of British Slave-Ownership
Provides details on those who claimed ownership of enslaved Africans and their descendants in British colonies at the time of emancipation in 1834, derived from documentation pertaining to compensation for slave owners.
Slave Societies Digital Archive
Contains over 500,000 pages of documentation on free and enslaved Africans, along with indigenous Amerindians, Europeans and Asians in Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Spanish Florida and elsewhere as recorded primarily in ecclesiastical records.
Equiano's World
A project on Gustavus Vassa, more commonly known as Olaudah Equiano, and the movement to abolish the slave trade in Britain and its colonies at the end of the eighteenth century.
Slavery Images
A visual record of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slave life in the Americas, including portraits and illustrations of individuals, contemporary maps of Africa, the Atlantic and the Americas, emancipation and post-slavery life.
Slave Voyages
Comprises of about 36,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world.
This Webpage was last updated on Monday, 16 March 2020 (5:05 pm) by Kartikay Chadha