David RichardsonDavid Richardson is a Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, and the former Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, Hull. He is author of the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (with Davi Eltis, 2010), and editor of Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (with David Eltis, 1997), Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (with David Eltis, 2008), and Networks of Transcultural Exchange: Slave Trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867 (with Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, 2014). Read More Read Less