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Access the Slave Voyages website to answer the questions below.

1. Click on the "Trans-Atlantic" tab at the top of the page. Then select "Timeline and Chronology" and use the tools found on that page to answer this question: According to the estimates on the table, how many enslaved people were brought (embarked) from Africa to the Americas from the 1500s-1800s? How many survived the journey (disembarked)? How many enslaved people were brought (embarked) to the United States specifically? How many survived the journey (disembarked)? (Hint: you will not need to change any parameters of the table, timeline, or map for "Total," but you will need to uncheck all boxes except "U.S.A." for the total for the United States). * Total (All of the Americas): * Embarked: * Disembarked: * United States: * Embarked: * Disembarked: * Are the two numbers the same? Why not? What does this tell you about the "Middle Passage"?

2. Click on the "Trans-Atlantic" tab at the top of the page. Then select "Timeline and Chronology" and use the tools found on that page to answer this question: in which 100-year period were the most enslaved people brought from Africa to the Americas? (Hint: you can either use the timeline and visually determine this, or go to "Tables" and select "100 year periods" in the "Rows" section at the top. * 100-year period: * Based on the content you've learned from this class (and previous classes), why do you think the slave trade was most active in the 100-year period you identified in question #2?

3. To answer this question, from the homepage of Slave Voyages, select "Database" under "Trans-Atlantic" at the top of the page. Click on "Itinerary" at the top of the database display; select "Place where captives were landed," and then select "Mainland North America." This will give you a list of possible candidates for answering this question. Click on any voyage that has numbers in the "Captives arrived at first port" column, and use the data there to supply the following information: * Year arrived with slaves: * Vessel name: * Place where vessel's voyage began: * Principal place where captives were purchased: * Voyage duration, homeport to disembarkation (in days): * Duration of captives' crossing (in days): * Principal place where captives were landed: * Total captives embarked: * Total disembarked:

4. We sometimes forget that enslaved people were people, with their own unique identities, not just numbers. The "People of the Atlantic Slave Trade" database can help us with this. After the United States outlawed participation in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the coastal slave trade still flourished, as enslaved people were forcibly transported to and from different parts of the country. Ship owners were required to keep manifests of their human "cargo," and this information has been incorporated into the "Oceans of Kinfolk" database. From the homepage, click "People of the Atlantic Slave Trade" and select the "Oceans of Kinfolk" database. Using that database, select two people, one male, one female, and supply the following information: * Person #1 * Sex: * Age: * Height: * Racial descriptor: * Ship name: * Enslavers: * Person #2 * Sex: * Age: * Height: * Racial descriptor: * Ship name: * Enslavers:

5. How can the databases and information available on the Slave Voyages website help us understand the history of slavery in a better, new, or different way?