Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Emory University, 2013
"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."
Slave Societies Digital Archive
Vanderbilt University, 2018
"This Digital Archive currently holds 500,000 unique images, dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and documents the history of between 6 and 8 million individuals. On this website you will find areas dedicated to Angola, Benin, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, and Spanish Florida."
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and University of Virginia, 2015
Moldy Church Records in Latin America Document the Lives of Millions of Slaves
Humanities Magazine, 2017
The Creation of an Atlantic Economy: Sugar and Slaves
Bridging World Histories, 1998
African and Afro-Indian Rebel Leaders in Latin America: Con Tanta Arrogancia (article)
Harvard Review of Latin America, 2018
Iberian Roots of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1440–1640
Gilder Lehrman
Slavery and Spanish Colonization
Digital History, 2019
Primary Source: Olaudah Equiano describes the Middle Passage, 1780s
Adapted by newsela
Slavery and Remembrance, 2019
Effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Americas (short podcast)
15 Minute History, 2012
Live Science, 2008
McNair Scholars, 2006