The Names of Nearly 4 Million Enslaved People in Former British Colonies Are Now Searchable Online, Helping Descendants Find Lost Ancestors

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The Names of Nearly 4 Million Enslaved People in Former British Colonies Are Now Searchable Online, Helping Descendants Find Lost Ancestors

www.tbsnews.net · context
Nearly 4 million records of enslaved people across 20 former British colonies have been made searchable online for the first time through a landmark digital archive.
www.ucl.ac.uk · supports
The UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS) has partnered with Ancestry to digitise and make searchable nearly 4 million records of people enslaved in the 19th century.
thegrio.com · supports
Ancestry has made nearly 4 million enslavement records searchable for free, giving descendants across the African diaspora another way to trace family connections and recover ancestors’ names.