Recently Released: Database Catalogs Slave Ships

From the AP article (via NY Times):
Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of black people closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships. Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database launched Friday as Emory University marked the bicentennial of the official end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1808. The project documents the slave trade from Africa to the New World an

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