Humanities desk
< January 13	<< Dec \| January \| Feb >>	January 15 >

Welcome to the Wikipedia Humanities Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is a transcluded archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.

January 14[edit]

Bristol slave trade[edit]

Does anyone have access to David Richardson, The Bristol Slave Traders: A Collective Portrait (1985)? That's the source for the number of 500,000 enslaved Africans traded by Bristol merchants during the Transatlantic slave trade, but there's no page number. This BBC article also cites that book and that number, but unfortunately also without a page number--one gets the feeling that the Richardson citation was pulled from the BBC article. I really need a more precise citation. Or does anyone have another source for such a number, preferably accessible via Google Books? Thank you so much, Drmies (talk) 15:58, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

if it is this one i am going to have to comment on your google search skill. I hazily remember something of this sort an issue on the Edward Colston article, possible the 500,000 number came from a query using a database of slave voyages? fiveby(zero) 16:09, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, i was wrong thinking it was connected to SlaveVoyages

Information obtained from shipping records, customs accounts and newspapers reveals that some 2,108 slaving ventures were fitted out in Bristol between 1698 and 1807, an average of just over 20 ventures per year. As the mean loading of vessels on the coast appears to have been in excess of 250 slaves during the eighteenth century, Bristol traders were responsible therefore for carrying probably over half a million blacks from the African coast during the era of 'open trade' from 1698 to 1807.

p. 1 last para. fiveby(zero) 16:49, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks--I see it, in the pamphlet. I appreciate it. Drmies (talk) 17:18, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Anonym internet culture[edit]

Is there actually already a knowledgebased study of places on the Internet where you can add tests anonymously?
Just like certain imeage boards, pastbins, various art projects such as theLibrary of Babel and so on? In a way, one could consider this a form of literature, just like papyrology. After all, these texts have certain things in common, such as worldwide readability, and so on. -- 2A02:908:426:D280:313C:C4D9:A3DF:9E2F

Do you mean "tests" or "texts"? --←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:28, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. This kind of thing falls under Literature, Digital Humanities, and Media Studies. Sometimes all three at once. Depending on the work in question it could also fall under various subdisciplines based on its form, type, and/or content. -- asilvering (talk) 04:44, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]