Thread by @gogogomalley

Pleased to announce a major expansion of the Intra-American Slave Trade Database: slavevoyages.org/american/datab…. Thanks to support from @ACLS1919, new data more than doubles the number of documented voyages moving enslaved people within the Americas. Now 27,680 entries. (1/6)
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One major addition, thanks to the research of @drjkwilliams, is coverage of the maritime portion of the U.S. domestic slave trade, particularly forced movements of enslaved people to the Gulf South via New Orleans, 1820-1860: slavevoyages.org/voyages/Fw7wQw…. (2/6)
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An exciting aspect of new data on US trafficking is that the records @drjkwilliams gathered recorded names of enslaved people. (Most trade records omitted names). We’ve created a new database of the people who endured such journeys: slavevoyages.org/past/database. (3/6)
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Another addition, thanks to Alex Borucki, improves info on Spanish American mainland arrivals—200+ new entries and revisions to hundreds more. The database now has 2,000+ voyages delivering people to the Spanish mainland: slavevoyages.org/voyages/Br32Nh…. (4/6)
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The last big addition, thanks to @dandomingx, adds coverage of trafficking withing Brazil in the 19th c. His team @RiceUniversity used newspapers to document more than 12,000 voyages delivering enslaved people to Rio de Janeiro: slavevoyages.org/voyages/VIiMSw…. (5/6)
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I also acknowledge that while the database is powerful for documenting the scale & patterns of forced migration, it does little to convey what enslaved people endured. I encourage users to balance data w/ narratives & methods emphasizing captives’ humanity. (6/6)
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