Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online

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Nearly four million records documenting the lives of enslaved people from 20 former British colonies, including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, and Trinidad, have been digitized and made searchable online for the first time.

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad Nearly 4m records documenting the lives of enslaved people across 20 former British colonies have been made searchable online for the first time. The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London. Continue reading...