March 25: International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Of the 12 million enslaved Africans brought to the Americas, more than 5 million were transported to Brazil by Brazilian and Portuguese slave merchants.

Map from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database.

EXPLORE THE ORIGINS AND FORCED RELOCATIONS OF ENSLAVED AFRICANS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC WORLD

The Slave Voyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history.

Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas.

Explore where they were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the horrific loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the perpetrators, and much more.

Link To the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database: https://www.slavevoyages.org/