The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages

Between the 16th and the 19th century, more than 10 million Africans were forcibly transported to the United States. The actual number is estimated at 12.5 million. The database and another quote interface provide opportunities for researchers, students, and the public to rediscover one reality of world's greatest enforced movement.

Voyage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database is the result of a two-year commitment by Emory University. Robert Woodruff's history professor David Eltis was one of the first scholars who published "Transatlane Slave Trade" as a CD-ROM in 1999. He and the Director of Digital Innovation at Emory Library, Martin Halbert led this work. Make online projects scalable, interactive and publicly accessible. "Everyone wants to know where their ancestors came from," Eltis said. "Data on slave trade is more than free entry campaign.The slave trade is business and the people are property so the record may be better.The database is to be achieved by European historians The way it is done establishes a link between the United States and Africa. "

The Atlantic crossing slave trade database provides information on about 16,000 slavery voyages that forcefully welcomed over 10 million African Americans to the Americas from the 16th century to the 19th century. The actual number is estimated at 12.5 million. The database and another quote interface provide opportunities for researchers, students and the public to rediscover one reality of people's greatest enforcement movement in world history. Hers Town 's newspaper from 1790 to 1864 published a story of many African Americans in Washington County, Maryland. The main materials that survived during this period are usually limited to court documents such as wills, prison records, instructions, and a few church records such as African-American births, deaths, and marriages.