Digital Archive No. 6 – #Trans-Atlantic_Slave_Trade_Database
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When I was first given the opportunity to write this weekly series, I reached out to a few friends and colleagues who work in the digital realm for suggestions on.....
The TASTD is a project with a long history, stretching into the 1960s when scholars first began to collect archival data on slave trade voyages and started coding them into a machine-readable format. Originally made available to scholars on CD-ROMS in the 1990s, the dataset was finally presented as an open access site in 2006 (...).
This site compiles data for nearly 35,000 slaving voyages, providing extensive open access metadata for each of the voyages, including additional sources to consult. The database also maps out the various stages of the vessel’s journey and provides any related images that might be available for that particular voyage.