Queens History as World History: Digital Historical Resources

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Partition of India and helps map migration routes and stories through interviews. Verify your oral histories with South Asian community members ( i.e. Bengali , Pakistan) through live interviews under the Browse feature in this link. For example this can be used to verify of oral history in the Bengali .population.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database includes detailed information on 35,000 transatlantic slave trading voyages that occurred between 1520 and 1866 as well as estimates of the overall size and direction of the trade. Detailed personal information on over 90,000 Africans removed from captured slave ships in the nineteenth century, including their African names is accessible.

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