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Slavery, Abolitions and Social Justice Portal 1490-2007

Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (Emory U.)

There are many excellent electronic resources including:

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, also know as "Voyages"
Contains records of almost 35,000 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages made between 1514 and 1866. Format allows users to track information by time period and geographic region, and includes interactive maps that allow viewers to chart the trans-Atlantic connections. The accompanying data contains materials about people on board, owners and captains, ships' characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 is an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together original manuscripts and rare printed material from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world for the period 1490-2007. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.

The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic LIterature  presents more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. In almost 12 million pages, it focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. Has collection of over 1100 titles dealing with slavery.

See also

"African American, Slavery and Abolition," Special Topic from U.S. History Research Guide (Emory)

"African Diaspora," African Studies (Columbia)

"Slavery," Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford)