By the numbers ... Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Facts and figures related to Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. The database was highlighted and an EAA/Emory Libraries event in Washington, DC on November 18.

12,521,336: Estimate of the number of Africans forced into the trans-Atlantic slave trade

34,940: Number of voyages* documented in the database

1,500: Highest recorded number of slaves boarded onto a single vessel, the Ocilla

300: Number of Africans who died during that voyage of the Ocilla

228: Number of voyages on which at least half of the Africans were children

1866: The year of the last recorded trans-Atlantic voyage that delivered Africans into slavery

18: Number of countries where sources cited in the Voyages database are located

90: Number of archives worldwide that house sources cited in the Voyages database

60: Percentage of voyages in the database for which information comes from at least three separate sources

99: Number of variables used to describe voyages in the online version of the Voyages database

276: Number of variables used to describe voyages in the downloadable version of the Voyages database

56: Current number of researchers who contributed data found in the Voyages database (this number is still growing)

45: Number of people directly involved in the project to create Voyages

349,000: Dollars of external grant funding that supported the project to create Voyages

349,000: Dollars of external grant funding that currently supports the African Origins Project

*A single voyage is typically defined by the port from which a vessel departs to acquire slaves to the port where the last Africans are disembarked, as well as all ports in between.