Book Review: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM

The robust, sustained interest in the history of the transatlantic slave trade has been a defining feature of the intersection of African studies and digital scholarship since the advent of humanities computing in the 1960s. The pioneering work of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, first made widely available in CD-ROM in 1999, is one of several major projects to use digital tools in the research and analysis of the Atlantic trade from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. Over the past two decades, computing technologies have also been applied to the exploration of African bondage outside the maritime Atlantic frame. In the 2010s, Slave Voyages (the online successor to the original Slave Trade Database compact disc) joined many other projects in and outside the academy that deploy digital tools in the reconstruction of the large-scale structural history of the trade as well as the microhistorical understandings of individual lives, the biography of notables, and family ancestry.

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Book Review: Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade, Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia

Journal of Asian and African Studies ◽

10.1177/002190960303800110 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 101-105

Author(s):

Judith Byfield

Keyword(s):

Slave Trade ◽

Atlantic Slave Trade

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Book Review: Re-Membering the Black Atlantic: on the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory by Lars Eckstein (2006)

IJOHMN ◽

10.24113/ijohmn.v5i3.102 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 77-80

Author(s):

Ahmed Seif Eddine Nefnouf

Keyword(s):

Slave Trade ◽

Black Atlantic ◽

African Origin ◽

Fiction Writers ◽

Atlantic Slave Trade ◽

Literary Memory

Eckstein (2006) notes that the Atlantic slave trade has continuously haunted the cultural memories of Europe, Africa, and America. In fact, everyone wishes to forget about it. Many of the victims of the African origin tried to run away from the sites that they got traumatized, while those who were enlightened especially, the Westerners preferred to remain unconscious to these upsetting complicity between slavery and enlightenment. In the last few years, many fiction writers have made a decision to venture in re-membering the Black Atlantic.

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