According to a news report by Michigan radio station WUOM-FM, Michigan State University (MSU) will use a $1.47 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to put together an online database that will combine data MSU already has with information from other databases regarding the slave trade.
The database will include biographies, charts, and other documents from several countries.
For information from MSU about the slave trade, visit SlaveBiographies.org and Enslaved.org. Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network is an open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. It includes the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of individual slaves. Enslaved encourages the study and exploration of the historical slave trade.
Very cool.