Project
The Slave Societies Digital Archive
Office of Digital Humanities
Photo caption
The Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá, late 19th century.
Courtesy of The Slave Societies Digital Archive.
Photo caption
The Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá, late 19th century.
Courtesy of The Slave Societies Digital Archive.
The most extensive serial records for the history of Africans in the Atlantic World, this archive of rescued church records document the lives of between 4 and 6 million individuals in Angola, Benin, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, and Spanish Florida.