This project collects and curates datasets on slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean and wider maritime Asian worlds.
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ESTA Database Locations
Dec 18, 2025
Konings, Pascal, 2023, "ESTA Database Locations", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/IWJMHH, IISH Data Collection, V7, UNF:6:zniiM6nyv6DbRPs6F35I4A== [fileUNF]
The dataset ‘ESTA Database Locations’ covers the (projected) locations in the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) project’s database as of December 2025. The ESTA Database contains data on slave trade movements, often maritime, in the larger Indian Ocean basin and East Asia, fro...
Data Description Annex v.7.0 ESTA Database Locations.docx
Dec 18, 2025 - ESTA Database Locations
MS Word - 37.3 KB - MD5: e8ee3f38967fed68bc286faecb8fdd8d
Documentation
Documentation
ESTA_standardised_locations_2025_12_18_v7.tab
Dec 18, 2025 - ESTA Database Locations
Tabular Data - 204.1 KB - 28 Variables, 544 Observations - UNF:6:zniiM6nyv6DbRPs6F35I4A==
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Index van aan bod gekomen en/of genoemde slaafgemaakte vrouwen bij de Raad van Justitie te Kaap de Goede Hoop
Aug 29, 2025
Veenhuijsen, Martijn, 2025, "Index van aan bod gekomen en/of genoemde slaafgemaakte vrouwen bij de Raad van Justitie te Kaap de Goede Hoop", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/BZ8NNB, IISH Data Collection, V1
This Dutch-language dataset was created as part of the MA thesis "Slavernij in de Nederlandse Kaapkolonie: De onzichtbare arbeid en rol van slaafgemaakte vrouwen in het tussenstation Kaap de Goede Hoop (1652–1795)", a study of the labour and roles of enslaved women in the former...
M. Veenhuijsen - Index Slaafgemaakte Vrouwen Raad van Justitie, Kaap de Goede Hoop.csv
Aug 29, 2025 - Index van aan bod gekomen en/of genoemde slaafgemaakte vrouwen bij de Raad van Justitie te Kaap de Goede Hoop
Comma Separated Values - 47.6 KB - MD5: 88f9722bc21812f6b02aff78c6766de6
M. Veenhuijsen - Index Slaafgemaakte Vrouwen Raad van Justitie, Kaap de Goede Hoop (documentation).csv
Aug 29, 2025 - Index van aan bod gekomen en/of genoemde slaafgemaakte vrouwen bij de Raad van Justitie te Kaap de Goede Hoop
Comma Separated Values - 4.2 KB - MD5: a60f80943c7d235f8bfd8b7419179576
M. Veenhuijsen - Index Slaafgemaakte Vrouwen Raad van Justitie, Kaap de Goede Hoop.xlsx
Aug 29, 2025 - Index van aan bod gekomen en/of genoemde slaafgemaakte vrouwen bij de Raad van Justitie te Kaap de Goede Hoop
MS Excel Spreadsheet - 49.6 KB - MD5: 01d0a5dac916708af7d726dd2b73ddca
Slave trade prices in the Indian Ocean, Indonesian Archipelago and Atlantic worlds
May 16, 2025
van Rossum, Matthias, 2025, "Slave trade prices in the Indian Ocean, Indonesian Archipelago and Atlantic worlds", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/ALNM2S, IISH Data Collection, V1, UNF:6:LK10CyRarIzmCHN6L7wiAA== [fileUNF]
This database contains prices paid for enslaved people in the Indian Ocean, Indonesian Archipelago and Atlantic worlds and is mainly based on Dutch source material. Its datasets were created by the author (M. van Rossum) for the article ‘Towards a global perspective on early mode...
1. 2020-11-16D Slave trade prices database - JGH - MvR.tab
May 16, 2025 - Slave trade prices in the Indian Ocean, Indonesian Archipelago and Atlantic worlds
Tabular Data - 478.7 KB - 35 Variables, 1751 Observations - UNF:6:LK10CyRarIzmCHN6L7wiAA==
Data
Full set in .xlsx (Excel)
2. Van Rossum JGH Global Perspective Early Modern Slave Trade Prices.pdf
May 16, 2025 - Slave trade prices in the Indian Ocean, Indonesian Archipelago and Atlantic worlds
Adobe PDF - 913.7 KB - MD5: 638e815a147a93cace2a6436a1b0a44e
Documentation
This article serves as the database's documentation.
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