Using African names to identify the origins of captives in the transatlantic slave trade: crowd-sourcing and the Registers of Liberated Africans, 1808-1862

Richard Anderson; Alex Borucki; Daniel Domingues da Silva; David Eltis; Paul Lachance; Philip Misevich; Olatunji Ojo

doi:10.1017/hia.2013.3

Using African names to identify the origins of captives in the transatlantic slave trade: crowd-sourcing and the Registers of Liberated Africans, 1808-1862

Richard Anderson, Alex Borucki, Daniel Domingues da Silva, David Eltis, Paul Lachance, Philip Misevich, Olatunji Ojo

Faculty Of Humanities And Social Sciences

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	165-191
Number of pages	27
Journal	History in Africa
Volume	40
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2013.3
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2013

Keywords

transatlantic slave trade
liberated Africans

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