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David Eltis is a historian of the Atlantic world whose research uses quantitative evidence to study the transatlantic slave trade, forced migration, and the societies connected by them. He was a professor at Emory University and a co-director of the Slave Voyages project, which provides a searchable scholarly database of voyages carrying enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. His work combines historical interpretation with demographic and shipping records.
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What is the Slave Voyages project?
Slave Voyages is a research database documenting the transatlantic slave trade, forced migration, and the ships and voyages involved. David Eltis was a co-director of the project and helped develop its quantitative approach.
What kind of evidence does David Eltis use?
Eltis uses shipping records, port data, voyage documents, demographic evidence, and other quantitative sources to study the Atlantic slave trade. This allows historians to analyze forced migration at a scale that individual narratives alone cannot provide.
Where did David Eltis teach?
David Eltis was a professor at Emory University. His Atlantic history research connected European, African, American, and Caribbean societies through the study of forced migration.
Does David Eltis study slavery only as an economic system?
No. His work examines the human movement, political structures, societies, and demographic consequences created by the transatlantic slave trade. Quantitative data is used to clarify those historical relationships, not to reduce slavery to statistics.
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