The African Origins project is a database run by researchers at
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...
,
Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
* Related to the ...
, United States, which aims to document all the known facts about the
African diaspora, including all documentary material pertaining to the
transatlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and i ...
. It is a sister project to
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.
References
External links
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African diaspora
Databases
African slave trade
European colonization of the Americas
European colonisation in Africa
Early Modern period
Forced migration
History of sugar
Slave trade
Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...
History of the Caribbean
Slavery in North America
Slavery in South America
Slavery in the British Empire
Slavery in the United States
Trade routes
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