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AAAD 488: Human Rights and Democracy in African Diaspora Communities: Portals and Projects

Portals and Projects

Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora An organization providing a forum for scholars of the African diaspora to exchange and promote ideas through research and discussion.

Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The Voyages website itself is the product of two years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.