| In
This Issue
March 2000
Newsletter #34
Off- Campus Storage Frees Space
for New Books
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Study Carrels Wired
Untangling the Web: Specialized
Search Engines
Electronic Reference Shelf
Literary Gold Mine Online
CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin
Texts
Tax Forms Available
Food for Fines
Barbecues: an Occasion for Sin?
Jon Reynolds, University Archivist
Third Century Campaign Progress
CNDLS: Collaboration to
Focus on New Learning Environments
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
| The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM
from Cambridge University Press documents the forced migration of
Africans across the Atlantic from 1595 to 1866. Over 170 data fields
for more than 27,000 voyages, nearly two-thirds of all the voyages
that sailed from Africa to the Americas are included. |
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(Complete information for every voyage is not available). Ships’
owners, captains, date and port of departure and arrival, number of enslaved
Africans embarked and disembarked, number of deaths, and vessels that
had “insurrections” are among the information available. From
these data, slave export and import cycles, links between ports or regions
in Africa and the Americas, mortality levels on trans-Atlantic crossings,
as well as a host of other possibilities can be researched. In addition,
the CD-ROM has graph and map capabilities that enhance its usefulness.
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