SlaveVoyages

CTL-E-6355 · Institution · other · 2008–present

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SlaveVoyages, at slavevoyages.org, is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Its Trans-Atlantic database compiles information about more than 36,000 voyages that forcibly transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic between 1514 and 1866. Its Intra-American database contains information on more than 37,000 maritime voyages trafficking enslaved people within the Americas between 1550 and 1887. The project began as data collected from the 1960s, became a CD-ROM in 1999, and debuted as a website at Emory University in 2008. In 2021 a consortium was formed to sustain it, joining Emory, Harvard's Hutchins Center, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Omohundro Institute at William & Mary, Rice University, and three University of California campuses in joint membership.

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• Also known as: Slave Voyages

Notes

STAGING: temp id EB-11. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): 'more than 36,000 voyages' (Trans-Atlantic, 1514–1866) and 'more than 37,000 maritime voyages' (Intra-American, 1550–1887) — SlaveVoyages site itself, accessed 2026-10-29, carried in the description. FLAGS: current host is in transition across the sources (Rice hosting period per the project's 3.0 blog; an April 2025 Journal of Blacks in Higher Education report names Harvard as the new home) — the description therefore claims NO current host. The consortium sentence is the 2021 formation list; UWI Cave Hill joined later (2022, Rice Magazine) and is carried in the sources, not the formation sentence. CURATOR'S JUDGMENT (DRAFT): The packet's largest act of recovery: the Middle Passage rendered as queryable evidence, voyage by voyage.

Sources

• SlaveVoyages (accessed 2026-10-29): 'This database compiles information about more than 36,000 voyages that forcibly transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic between 1514 and 1866.'; 'This database contains information on more than 37,000 maritime voyages trafficking enslaved people within the Americas between 1550 and 1887.' (primary source · build store)
• UC Santa Cruz News (accessed 2026-10-29): 'The SlaveVoyages database, previously hosted at Emory University, will now function as a cooperative academic collaboration through a contractual agreement among six institutions: Emory University, the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture at William & Mary, Rice University, and three campuses of the University of California that will assume a joint membership—UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine and UC Berkeley.' (build store)
• Emory News (accessed 2026-10-29): 'More than 50 researchers from Emory and institutions around the world have contributed to the project, which has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK, and Harvard's Hutchins Center.' (build store)
• SlaveVoyages blog (accessed 2026-10-29): 'The new website version was designed at Rice University during its website hosting period under the SlaveVoyages Consortium (est. 2021). Funding for the redesign came from Rice University's Office of Information Technology, Oracle for Research, the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, and the SlaveVoyages Consortium.' (primary source · build store)
• Rice Magazine (accessed 2026-10-29): 'Earlier this year, the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, joined the consortium, making it the first international institution to be part of the SlaveVoyages project.' (build store)

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