Historian of slavery and the Atlantic World. Author of Final Passages. Contributor to https://t.co/zo1gCE7Qey. Current project: The Escapes of David George.
Jan 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
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) #Slavery
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) @slavevoyages
