The records include names, ages, physical descriptions and family relationships, as well as births, deaths, and transfers of ownership.
Nearly 4 million records documenting enslaved people across 20 former British colonies are now searchable online, providing descendants across the African and Caribbean diasporas with new access to names, family relationships, and other details that could help reconstruct ancestral histories disrupted by slavery, The Guardian reports.
The Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers contain about 300,000 pages documenting enslaved people from 1813 to 1840 in territories including Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad, Mauritius, and the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa. Genealogy company Ancestry digitized and indexed the collection in partnership with University College London Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, according to the outlet.
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