The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. A database on CD-ROM

This CD-ROM contains the records of 27233 trans-Atlantic slave ship votyages amde between 1595 and 1866. Through a series of interactive maps, uses can chart the trans-Atlantic connections that underlie these detailed records and thus witness the rise and fall, the direction, and the vagaries of the traffic in humankind. The accompanying data set contains material for 226 fields of information for each voyage, covering the people on board and their experiences, the owners and captains, the ship´ s characteristics, and the geographic trajectory of each voyage.