Historical African Childhoods focuses on the movement created by enforced migration of Africans in the Atlantic world and inside of the African continent during the era of the slave trade from the 16th to 19th centuries. By looking at how the conditions imposed by the trans-Atlantic slave trade changed and created new definitions of children and childhoods. Proposing to look at these large groups of people through micro and macro lenses the project intends to explore the different experiences of African children. What was universal among these diasporic communities and what was specific to each context? As ‘childhood’ is a socially constructed classification, the development of a central methodology on who was classified as children in each context would augment the debate on the studies of African History, Diaspora, children, and youth in general.