April 13, 2001
New Database May Provide Insights Into the African Slave Trade
In a sense, G. Ugo Nwokeji bases his studies on the measurements of ghosts.
Mr. Nwokeji, who is from Nigeria, is an assistant professor of history at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He is compiling an electronic database of information about Africans who were rescued from slave ships. In the future, scholars could crunch the data to get general ideas of where slave raiders were finding their human cargo and what factors those raiders might have
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