expansion of the slave trade. We’re joined today by Emory professor David Eltis, the co-

editor of www.slavevoyages.org that draws on thousands of records — ship logs,

registers, letters and government records — to understand the mechanics of the trade.

His new book, Atlantic Cataclysm, utilizes these records to offer a new interpretation of

transatlantic slavery centered on the Iberian rather than French or British Americas.