David Eltis and David Richardson

David Eltis (born c. 1940), a Canadian historian specializing in the transatlantic slave trade, is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History Emeritus at Emory University and co-creator of SlaveVoyages.org and African-Origins.org; his notable works include The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (2000) and Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2010, with David Richardson), earning awards like the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal (2025) and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015). David Richardson (1946-2023), a British economic historian at the University of Hull and co-founder of the Wilberforce Institute, collaborated extensively with Eltis on slave trade databases and authored works like Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Liverpool and Transatlantic Slavery (2008) [German Wikipedia), SlaveVoyages].