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

According to Repeating Islands, [Many thanks to Peter Jordens and Veerle Poupeye (Critical.Caribbean.Art) for bringing this item to our attention.] In this article, Aamna Mohdin (The Guardian) writes about a collection named the Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers, which contains about 300,000 pages recording enslaved people across former British colonial dependencies between 1813 and 1840, including the Bahamas, Barbados, […]

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