Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad Nearly 4m records documenting the lives of enslaved people across 20 former British colonies have been made searchable online for the first time. The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London. Continue reading...

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

The fifth instalment of the annual Elsa V. Goveia Speaker Series from the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery.

The idea of making amends for slavery has a long genealogy in Britain. Catherine Hall examines this history alongside vital questions of race and repair for our present moment.

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Valuable Lives is a major CSLBS project aimed at creating the first and most comprehensive publicly available database on black lives under British slavery.

Valuable Lives is a major CSLBS project aimed at creating the first and most comprehensive publicly available database on black lives under British slavery.