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• Ancestry.com - Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834 $

  Original source: Office of Registry of Colonial Slaves and Slave Compensation Commission: Records; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication T71); Records created and inherited by HM Treasury; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Brown University Library - Cuban Slavery Documents collection

  Providence, Rhode Island.

• Curaçao: Slavenregister en emanicipatieregisters - Nationaal Archief

  Slave registers and Emancipation Registers of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles, 1839-1863. These records registered the enslaved population until manumission.

• Curaçao: Vrij van Slavernij (manumissies) | Nationaal Archief

  Index of freed slaves in Curacao from 1832 to 1863.

• Early Caribbean Digital Archive - Early Caribbean Slave Narrative

  The ECDA has two primary related, overarching goals: the first is to uncover and make accessible a literary history of the Caribbean written or related by black, enslaved, Creole, indigenous, and/or colonized people. Although the first step in this process is digitization, the ECDA is more than a digitization or cataloging initiative. Rather, we aim to enable users—both scholars of the Caribbean as well as students—to understand the colonial nature of the archive and to use the digital archive as a site of revision and remix for exploring ways to decolonize the archive.

• Enslaved - Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade

  Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.

• Legacies of British Slave-ownership

  The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership has been established at UCL with the generous support of the Hutchins Center at Harvard. The Centre will build on two earlier projects based at UCL tracing the impact of slave-ownership on the formation of modern Britain: the ESRC-funded Legacies of British Slave-ownership project (2009-2012), and the ESRC and AHRC-funded Structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833 (2013-2015). The site has databases for the estates and maps of slave owners.

• Slaveneigenaren in Amsterdam 1863 / Slave owners in Amsterdam 1863

  A Google map project that shows the owners of slaves and their residence in The Netherlands, with links to the National Archvies database.

• Slavery and Revolution | Jamaica and Slavery in the Age of Revolution

• SlaveVoyages

  The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases are the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The new SlaveVoyages website itself is the product of three years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.

• Suriname en Nederlandse Antillen: Vrijverklaarde slaven (Emancipatie 1863)

  Index of emancipated slaves in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles in 1863.

• Suriname: Vrijgelaten slaven en hun eigenaren (manumissies)

  Index of free slaves and their owners in Suriname in 1863.

• The National Archives - Enslaved people and slave owners $

• The National Archives - Slavery and the British transatlantic slave trade $

• University of Chicago Library - Guide to the Slavery and Indentured Servitude Collection 1752-1864