After 20 years Pan African studies professor Joseph Holloway finished compiling the database on slave populations and slave rebellions in the United States. Bohdi Severns / staff photographer The Pan ...

On a typical day, over 1,000 visitors consult the website Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, one of the most utilized resources in the digital humanities. Drawing on four decades of ...

On a typical day, more than 1,000 visitors consult the website Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, one of the most utilized resources in the digital humanities. Drawing on four decades ...

nepalnepal — A new database launched Wednesday lets Britons curious about their family history uncover some potentially uncomfortable information – whether their ancestors owned slaves. Researchers at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS — Marcus Garvey once said, “A ...

In the 1980s, while conducting research at a courthouse in Louisiana, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall discovered a book written by 18th-century notaries that meticulously recorded details about hundreds of ...