Received a strong response from the public, and we recently developed an animation function, which helps to pay more attention to the terrible transaction scale and duration. The website has also recently implemented a system to provide new data for visitors. Last year alone, we added more than 1000 new voyages and revised many other details. The data of "KDSP" and "KDSP" changed the academic of slave trade and provided a new basis for enslaved people to experience and be imprisoned. They further emphasized the unique link of transatlantic trade promotion. The transatlantic slave trade from Africa to America.
Quantity and direction (David Ertis and David Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (New Haven, 20 10), the unique record of slave navigation provided by the author is the core of this project. Clicking on each voyage listed on the website will open their personal data, which contains more than 70 different fields and helps to tell the story of the voyage.
Which port does the voyage start from? Where did it go in Africa? How many enslaved people died halfway? Where did those enslaved Africans end their slavery to the ocean and start their slave life in America? "Considering the scale and complexity of the slave trade,
"Using complex data" to merge records from data sources of ship activities into a database brings many challenges. Records are written in many languages and kept in archives, libraries and private collections in dozens of countries. Many of them are developing countries and lack financial resources to invest in a continuous document preservation system.
Although they are relatively easy to obtain, the documents about subordinate navigation provide unbalanced information. The logbook gives a comprehensive description of the place of travel, and lists the number of slaves purchased, as well as the captain and crew. In contrast, the newspaper entry records may only show the name of the ship and the number of prisoners who survived.
These different sources may be difficult to reconcile. The number of slaves loaded or transported from a particular ship may vary greatly. Or the registration document carried by the ship is to conceal its actual source, especially after the abolition of trade in 1808 law.
Compiling these complex data in a fair way, while still maintaining the user-friendliness of the website, has always been a constant concern.
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Of course, not all slave voyages left a record of survival. So even if the gap continues to narrow, there will still be a gap in coverage. Maybe three out of every four voyages are recorded in the database. In order to explain the missing data, a separate evaluation tool enables users to clearly understand the quantity and structure of the slave trade and consider its changes with time and space.
Contacting navigation websites and collecting data on the slave trade are not new. Only by using these data can it be feasible to establish a comprehensive public database in the Internet age. man