The Wilberforce Institute has a well-established reputation for producing ground-breaking research into historical slavery.
Our work on slave voyages, led by Professor David Richardson, has transformed at all levels the evidential base for studying the transatlantic slave trade, providing researchers with reliable estimates of those carried from Africa to the Americas, as well as their origins and destinations.
His Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2010) has been described as ‘one of the greatest historical achievements of our time’.