Slave Registry

Descendants of slaves from the British Empire can now search a new online database that has just launched on the Internet. Ancestry.co.uk has created a database that covers over 2.7 million slaves and 280,000 slave-owners from 17 former British colonies. The records cover the time period 1812 through 1834 and is able to be searched by the slave's name, year of birth (if known), gender and name of their holder. This database is available both by individual subscription and through the institutional subscription available at the library's Heritage Room.