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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of History Gregory O’Malley Overview of the slave trade out of Africa, 1500-1900 (maps courtesy of ). Gregory O’Malley’s recent book, , has received multiple awards ...

ATLANTA AP – Emory University is launching an online database about the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The interactive Web site was developed by Emory history professor David Eltis and university ...

UC Santa Cruz associate history professor Gregory O’Malley has received a 2020 Digital Extension Grant of $150,000 from The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to expand coverage of the Intra ...

Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave vessels. Before 1820, four enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic for every European, making Africa the ...

The Virginia Historical Society has launched a database of slave names drawn from its vast collection of information. The site, Unknown No Longer, has 1,500 names and uses searchable keywords such as ...