Nearly four million slavery-era records made searchable online
Nearly four million records documenting enslaved people across 20 former British colonies have been digitised and indexed for online search. The collection contains 300,000 pages and includes records from places such as the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad.
Nearly four million records documenting the lives of enslaved people across 20 former British colonies have been made searchable online for the first time. The collection contains about 300,000 pages. It includes records from countries and territories including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad, according to The Guardian.
The records were digitised and indexed by genealogy company Ancestry. The company partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London on the project. Making the material searchable gives users online access to documents concerning enslaved people across the former colonies covered by the collection.
The source material does not specify the date range of the records, the types of documents included or the precise search tools available. It also does not provide details about the people who will be able to access the collection, any charges or restrictions, or the number of individual people represented. The project’s stated scope is limited in the supplied information to the 20 former British colonies and the digitised records described.
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