This database compiles information about more than 36,000 voyages that forcibly transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic between 1514 and 1866. Search and analyze the database for information on the broad origins of enslaved people, the tortuous Middle Passage, and the destinations of Africans in the Americas.

This database contains information on more than 11,000 maritime voyages trafficking enslaved people within the Americas. These slave trades operated within colonial empires, across imperial boundaries, and inside the borders of nations such as the United States and Brazil. Explore the forced removals, which not only dispersed African survivors of the Atlantic crossing but also displaced enslaved people born in the Americas.

The People of the African Slave Trade databases provide personal details on 91,491 enslaved people. In the African Origins dataset are the personal details of 91,491 Africans taken from nineteenth-century slave ships captured by anti-slave trade patrols or from African trading sites between 1808-1862. In the Oceans of Kinfolk dataset are the personal details of 63,562 people transported to New Orleans, and in many cases records on the people who transported, bought, and sold them there. Analyze the name, age, gender, origin, places of embarkation and disembarkation of these individuals, and some of their linkages to enslavers.

Explore images of the people, places, vessels, and documents linked to the Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trades. Where available, each image contains a link to a corresponding slave voyage in the databases and a reference to the original source.