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Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New World.
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New World. The atlas is based on an online database (www.slavevoyages.org) with records on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages-roughly 80 percent of all such voyages ever made. Using maps, David Eltis and David Richardson show which nations participated in the slave trade, where the ships involved were outfitted, where the captives boarded ship, and where they were landed in the Americas, as well as the experience of the transatlantic voyage and the geographic dimensions of the eventual abolition of the traffic. Accompanying the maps are illustrations and contemporary literary selections, including poems, letters, and diary entries, intended to enhance readers' understanding of the human story underlying the trade from its inception to its end.
This groundbreaking work provides the fullest possible picture of the extent and inhumanity of one of the largest forced migrations in history.
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Atlas of Slavery
Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and chronological span. This book uses a unique atlas format to present the story of slavery, explaining its historical importance and making this complex story and its geographical setting easy to understand.
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
A monumental cartographic history of the African slave trade, updated and expanded in a new edition In the first edition of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade , two leading historians explored details of the 350-year history of African slave traffic to the New World.
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Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data
In recent years, an increasing number of online archival databases of primary sources related to the history of the African diaspora and slavery have become freely and readily accessible for scholarly and public consumption. This proliferation of digital projects and databases presents a number of challenges related to aggregating data geographically according to the movement of people in and out of Africa across time and space. As a requirement to linking data of open-source digital projects, it has become necessary to delimit the entire continent of precolonial Africa during the era of the slave trade into broad regions and sub-regions that can allow the grouping of data effectively and meaningfully. Au cours de ces dernières années, un nombre croissant de bases de données d’archives en ligne contenant des sources liées à l’histoire de la diaspora africaine et de l’esclavage est devenu librement et facilement accessible pour les universitaires et le grand public. Cette prolifération de projets et de bases de données numériques pose un certain nombre de problèmes liés à l’agrégation géographique de données traitant de la circulation des personnes en Afrique et en dehors du continent à travers le temps et l’espace. Pour relier les données de ces projets numériques au code source ouvert, il est devenu nécessaire de diviser tout le continent africain à l’époque de la traite des esclaves en de vastes régions et sous-régions permettant le regroupement des données de manière efficace et significative.
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University of Colorado Historian Maps the Oyo Kingdom of West Africa in the Early 19th Century
At its peak, the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo was one of the largest and most influential West African states. It was established in roughly the 13th century, and is best known for its cavalries that would patrol the forested savannas and capture people to be sold to slave traders.
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Charting English Global Presence and its Violent Effects in Early Modernity: Reading Strategies for an Ambivalent Archive
The maps tasked with charting English new-found seafaring prowess in the latter half of the sixteenth century constitute an ambivalent archive. They participated in the imaginative work of conceptualising the world as whole and singular, held within a unified cosmos. At the same time, they were distinctly partisan, helping to advance English adventurism and construct an elevated vantage point where, the would-be English colonialist, might imagine traversing oceans to subdue far-flung lands and their peoples. By reading and re-reading Baptista Boazio’s beautiful hand-painted map, ‘The Famouse Weste Indian Voyadge’, a visual account of the voyage Francis Drake undertook in 1585 endorsed by Elizabeth I to make the case for English primacy in the Americas, the essay reflects on the interpretative tool kit that might be helpful in laying bare the racial violence that infused the early period of English expansionism. Reading, as presented here, becomes a matter of excavation. Maps such as Boazio’s were tasked with cosmographical import: they participated in the world-making that established a singular world, imagined as a totality, I argue, while simultaneously advancing rival national interests and the forms of dominance that underpinned racial slavery. The interrelated texts that chart the emergence of English aggression on the high seas offer an opportunity, albeit obliquely, to reckon with the history of English enslavement and to consider the ways that early modern knowledge practices are implicated in this history.
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Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa: A Controlled Vocabulary for Linking Open-Source Data in Digital History Projects
Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to consolidate, link, and disseminate research among a growing trend in digital humanities projects related to the history of the African diasporas before c. 1900. Our naming of regions aims to avoid terminologies derived from European slave traders, colonialism, and modern-day countries.
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The Slave Market in Rio de Janeiro circa 1869: Context, Movement and Social Experience
The slave market in Rio de Janeiro was transformed over the course of the nineteenth century. Prior to 1850, slaves poured into the city from Africa via the Atlantic trade. Buying and selling slaves then shifted to a local market typified by individual sales. Rather than a concentrated process dominated by formal market spaces and professional slave traders, the slave market in Rio de Janeiro was, by 1869, a continuous process that encompassed every neighborhood in the city. Mapping the origins, destinations, and characteristics of slaves, using detailed transaction data from 1869, highlights the ubiquity of slavery in Rio de Janeiro and the movement of slaves into new environments. O mercado de escravos no Rio de Janeiro foi transformado ao longo do século XIX. Antes de 1850, escravos africanos chegaram na cidade através do comércio atlântico. A compra e venda de escravos, então, foi transferido a um mercado local caracterizado por vendas individuais. Em vez de um processo concentrado e dominado por espaços formais e negociantes de escravos, o mercado de escravos no Rio de Janeiro foi, em 1869, um processo contínuo que abrangeu todos os bairros da cidade. Mapeando as origens, destinos e características de escravos, utilizando dados detalhados sobre as transaçoes, a partir de 1869, destaca a presença onipresente da escravidão no Rio de Janeiro e o movimento de escravos à ambientes novos.
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