More than 47,000 records of slave trade voyages — from maps, itineraries and mortality rates to accounts of insurrections on ships and stories of enslaved people — are now entrusted to Rice University ...

It would establish an electronic database in the National Archives to aid black Americans’ search for information on their ancestors. A bill introduced Jan. 10 would set up a national online database ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Historical Society is creating an online database that will contain the names and personal information about formerly enslaved African-Americans. The project is ...

An international online database has launched to educate scholars and others about the history of slaves and formerly enslaved people and it's hosted by Michigan State University. Enslaved.org has ...

"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most ...

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 ...