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Naming Our African Ancestors: Pushing, and Respecting, the Limits
- Journal of the Early Republic
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 40, Number 2, Summer 2020
- pp. 195-200
- 10.1353/jer.2020.0030
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Abstract:
This essay considers the possibilities and limitations of using the slavevoyages.org database to research the histories of enslaved people who came to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade. It argues that there are limits to what can be known about individuals based solely on the region from which they departed Africa aboard a slave ship.