Daniel B. Domingues da Silva – The Conversation

A slave fortress in Cape Coast, Ghana. AP Photo/Clement N'Taye

May 1, 2017

A digital archive of slave voyages details the largest forced migration in history

Philip Misevich, St. John's University; Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, University of Missouri-Columbia; David Eltis, Emory University; Nafees M. Khan, Clemson University, and Nicholas Radburn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

An online database explores the nearly 36,000 slave voyages that occurred between 1514 and 1866.