Counting the Slaves
Stephen D. Behrendt marks the advent of an electronic database for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The trans-Atlantic slave trade and the ‘African Diaspora’ are attracting academic and educational interest worldwide. In 1995, the Merseyside Maritime Museum opened the gallery ‘Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Against Human Dignity’, which is now the museum's most-frequented exhibition. During the first five months of 1999, the Bristol City Museum’s exhibition on the Guinea trade attracted 160,000 visitors. In the United States, the recovery and preservation of artefacts from slaving vessels has increased public awareness of the notorious trade. In recognition of this interest, a new CD-Rom which offers a database of almost 30,000 slaving voyages across the Atlantic, will provide an important and exciting new reference resource.
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