Biographies: The Atlantic Slave Data Network (ASDN) is a database of
information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World.
ASDN collates data on individual slaves meticulously collected by
researchers over the past 20 years. Reviewed by an Advisory Board of
experts, datasets include among other information the names,
ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of slaves. The
collections reveal much about slave life in the New World and about
African slaves’ lives in parts of the Old World.
The initial phase of the ASDN will establish a best practice
methodology for how to structure the database to handle datasets
containing descriptions of slaves. Phase I will culminate in a freely
accessible website with tools that allow researchers to better visualize
and analyze the material in database.
