THE HARVARD CLUB OF GEORGIA
Invites you to attend

SLAVE VOYAGES

A Lecture & Presentation

by Professor David Eltis

"Slave Voyages," A Presentation by David Eltis, the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History at Emory University, Research Associate at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, Creator and Co-editor of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database

Date: Wednesday, February 17

Time: 6:30 p.m., Heavy Hors d'oeuvres
7:30 p.m. Lecture and Presentation
Questions and Discussion to Follow

Location: Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Conference Center
250 14th Street, NW
Atlanta, GA 30318

GTRI shares a driveway with Georgia Public Broadcasting. Complimentary parking available in the adjacent parking deck.

Cost: $20 for Harvard Club Members and Guests
$15 for Recent Grads
$25 for non-members.

RSVP: Deadline for Registration is February 14th

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Professor Eltis is one of the creators and current co-editor of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (www.slavevoyages.org), a database containing thousands of names of ship owners and captains of ships that traversed the Atlantic Ocean in the era of Transatlantic Slave Trade. The database also contains the names and descriptions of 67, 000 Africans who were liberated from slave vessels in the first half of the nineteenth century. The information contained in database was extracted from the registers of international courts established to adjudicate vessels detained as they engage in the transatlantic slave trade.

Professor Eltis has been working for years to create this database of 34, 941 transatlantic voyages. It now serves as an excellent source for the historical reconstruction of the history of African peoples in America, and facilitates the study of cultural, demographic and economic changes in the Atlantic wo rld from the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Come learn about his investigations and discover the information he unearthed.

Individuals are invited to bring their laptops to this event in order to participate and access the database. Laptops should have wireless capability, and if not, guests should bring Ethernet cords. Following his presentation, Professor Eltis will entertain questions from the audience. Be sure not to miss this fantastic opportunity!

Professor Eltis is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History at Emory University. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, (1979) and is an acclaimed author and historian. His research focuses on the early modern Atlantic World, slavery, and migration. He is the author several award-winning publications, including, Economic Growth and The Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1987) which won the British Trevor Reese Memorial Prize, and The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (Cambridge, 2000), awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize, the John Ben Snow Prize, and the Wesley-Logan Prize