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- Enslaved - Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade is a linked open data platform for the study and exploration of the historic slave trade that allows searches across multiple datasets of original documentation.
- Liberated Africans documents over 250,000 people who were taken off slave ships in the international effort to abolish the trans-Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades in the nineteenth century and listed in registers compiled in international courts.
- Legacies of British Slave-Ownership provides details on those who claimed ownership of enslaved Africans and their descendants in British colonies at the time of emancipation in 1834, derived from documentation pertaining to compensation for slave owners.
- The Slave Societies Digital Archive contains over 500,000 pages of documentation on free and enslaved Africans, along with indigenous Amerindians, Europeans and Asians in Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Spanish Florida and elsewhere as recorded primarily in ecclesiastical records.
- Equiano's World is a project on Gustavus Vassa, more commonly known as Olaudah Equiano, and the movement to abolish the slave trade in Britain and its colonies at the end of the eighteenth century.
- Slavery Images is a visual record of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slave life in the Americas, including portraits and illustrations of individuals, contemporary maps of Africa, the Atlantic and the Americas, emancipation and post-slavery life.
- Language of Marks focuses on body markings, including scarification, tattoos and other modifications of the physical body in Africa and the African diaspora, drawing initially on materials in the "Registers of Liberated Africans" submitted to international courts involved in the suppression of the slave trade.
- Le Marronnage dans le Monde Atlantique: Le « marronnage » est une forme de résistance pratiquée avec régularité par les hommes et les femmes asservis dans les sociétés esclavagistes du monde atlantique à l’époque moderne. Centré dans un premier temps sur Saint-Domingue, le projet porte désormais aussi sur la Guyane française, la Guadeloupe, la Jamaïque, la Caroline du Sud, la Louisiane et le Bas-Canada.
- Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery (DATAS) develops an innovative method to explore African ethnonyms from the era of trans-Atlantic slavery, circa 1500-1867. Ethnonyms index African identities, places and historical events to reconstruct African culture that is linked to a history of slavery, colonialism and racism. (Summary)
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