Library Funds Boston Museum of Fine Arts Membership for UNH

The UNH Library has taken on the Boston Museum of Fine Arts membership for UNH. This means UNH students can once again get in free by showing their UNH IDs at the door.

Passes for benefits-eligible faculty and staff will also be available. The passes have not yet been received, but should be here before the end of December. We will let the University community know when they are available.

Both programs apply only to general admission when an advance ticket is not required and do not apply for special exhibits.

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Emory University, in collaboration with a diverse backing that includes the National Endowment for the Humanities and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard, has developed a database that includes information about some 35,000 slave voyages. It includes information about the forced migrationof over 10 million Africans from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

It includes information on specific voyages, including the ability to create listings, tables, charts, and maps using information from the database. The database also include the means for estimating numbers for the 20% of slaving voyages that were not documented. And finally, the database  identifies over 67,000 Africans aboard slave ships, using name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation.