Web database catalogs slaves' trans-Atlantic treks

Friday, December 5, 2008 - 16:49 in Mathematics & Economics

Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has long been possible for white Europeans.

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