David Eltis

David Eltis is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History at Emory University. He has a Ph.D from the University of Rochester (1979). His research interests are the early modern Atlantic World, slavery, and migration - both coerced and free. He is the author of Economic Growth and The Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1987), which won the British Trevor Reese Memorial Prize, and The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000), awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize, the John Ben Snow Prize, and the Wesley-Logan Prize. Most recently, he is editor and contributor to Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (New Haven, 2008), editor and co-contributor of Slavery in the Development of the Americas (Cambridge, 2004), Coerced and Free Migration: Global Perspectives (Stanford University Press, 2002), and co-editor and contributor to a special issue of the William and Mary Quarterly (2001). He is also co-creator of www.slavevoyages.org, an updated version of The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is currently at work on an analysis of the identity of captive Africans put on board slave ships, and is co-editing the Cambridge World History of Slavery.