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David Eltis is Professor Emeritus at Emory University and the University of British Columbia. He is a founding member of www.slavevoyages.org, a publicly accessible transatlantic slave trade database. His three sole authored books have won twelve prizes, including the Frederick Douglass Prize.
'A tour de force by the world's leading scholar of the slave trade. Atlantic Cataclysm challenges virtually every popular assumption about the transatlantic slave trade and its consequences for Atlantic and global history. David Eltis has demonstrated in stunningly brilliant detail the indispensable value of deep archival research and big databases for documenting the largest forced migration in human history, and for the important insights these data can yield. Drawing upon a deeply learned and truly commanding comparative approach, Eltis has written the definitive analysis of the slave trade in Africans to the New World.' Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Harvard University 'A masterful account by the doyen of the field. Eltis convincingly locates the Americas at the center of a world-changing 'Atlantic Cataclysm' and, in so doing, radically transforms our understanding of the trans-Atlantic slave trade's history.' Nicholas Radburn, Lancaster University, and author of Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade 'The product of more than thirty years of research, David Eltis has produced a provocative and carefully argued set of findings on the slave trade using new data and reinterpreting older material. It will likely be the starting point for future discussion of the nature and impact of the trade on Africa, the Americas and Europe.' John Thornton, Boston University
