Nearly 4 Million Records of Enslaved People in Former British Colonies Made Searchable Online.
A partnership between Ancestry and University College London has digitized and posted online nearly 4 million records of enslaved people from 20 former British colonies. The collection of about 4 million records is now searchable. This information comes from an exclusive Guardian report and has not yet been confirmed by an independent source.
Why it matters
This responds to the problem of inaccessible historical records about enslaved people by digitizing a large collection to aid research.
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