Compiled by Herbert S. Klein. Abstract These data were collected to analyze the organization, rhythm, direction, and volume of slave ship operations of the major Atlantic slave trading nation, Portugal. Angola was selected for detailed study because of the quality and quantity of its records and because of its prime importance within the Portuguese slave trading zone. As a reminder, all of this information is from the original codebook and some sections may now be obsolete. The archival file consists of one file stored on magnetic tape.
All information is in character format.