ESTA (Exploring Slave Trade in Asia) Database Launch

Over the past five years, a project team based at the International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam has developed the ESTA Database structure in collaboration with international partners. The ESTA project has established a relational database model that is able to accommodate structural differences in source material and (existing) datasets relating to different parts of the Indian Ocean and maritime Asia region. Currently (2023), the database contains over 4,000 slave trade voyages across the maritime Asia region between roughly 1600 and 1850. The number of enslaved persons transported during these voyages range from at least 340,000–342,500 to 600,000 individuals.

IISH and BCDSS are closely linked not only by their collaboration on this project but also by an international partnership.

13:30 Welcome
13:45 Launch of ESTA Database
14:30 Comments
15:00 Open Discussion and Q&A
16:30 Reception

Registration required due to limited seating!