The Upper Guinea Coast and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Abstract

We could trade are on now not the have better evolution been able imagined to of understand the Atlantic a generation the world impact ago, to a of in degree a the manner slave that trade on the evolution of the Atlantic world to a degree that could not have been imagined a gen ration ago, in a manner that might well fulfill the visions of Thomas Clarkson, W.E.B. Du Bois and other commentators.1 Thus there is a long tradition of assessing patterns of the slave trade. Clarkson was using muster lists to determine voyage information, and at the same time abolitionists were gathering testimony on pathways of enslavement in Sierra Leone and elsewhere. Du Bois searched for comparable information a century later, but all this evidence is patchy. The TransAtlantic Slave Trade Database represents the culmination of inputting data into a common format that was collated by a team of scholars under the leadership of David Eltis, David Richardson and Paul Lachance. The first version of the database

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