SlaveVoyages, a tool for data on history's largest slave trades, is getting a new home. Word of the project's upcoming move was shared recently by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher ...

It would establish an electronic database in the National Archives to aid black Americans’ search for information on their ancestors. A bill introduced Jan. 10 would set up a national online database ...

More than 47,000 records of slave trade voyages — from maps, itineraries and mortality rates to accounts of insurrections on ships and stories of enslaved people — are now entrusted to Rice University ...

UC Santa Cruz has joined a newly formed consortium of institutions to ensure the preservation, stability, and future development of what has become the single most widely used online resource for ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Historical Society is creating an online database that will contain the names and personal information about formerly enslaved African-Americans. The project is ...

ATLANTA — Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has ...

"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most ...

The Trans-Atlanta Slave Trade Database, maintained by Emory University, is expanding through additional funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The database, known as slavevoyages.org, ...

LONDON (AP) - A new database launched Wednesday lets Britons curious about their family history uncover some potentially uncomfortable information - whether their ancestors owned slaves. Researchers ...