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Ancestors by Paul CROOKS

Ancestors is the fictionalized account based on author Paul Crooks' genealogical research into what happened to his great-great-great-grandfather John Alexander Crooks enslaved in Jamaica from 1798 to 1838, the year that slaves in the British West Indies were set free.

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.

Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (Amazon.com)

by Ana Lucia Araujo

Into the triangle trade

A history of human trafficking, pursuit of profit and distressing archival documents from the collections of the Zeeland Archives (Netherlands). It explains the Dutch involvement in the slave trade and the conditions on board such a ship, based on original records.

Le marronnage dans le monde atlantique, 1760-1848. Sources et trajectoires de vie.

Initiative portée par le Groupe d'histoire de l'Atlantique Français (FRQSC) en collaboration avec le projet « SHADD Biography Project: Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade » (CRSH) , « Le marronnage dans le monde atlantique » vise à décloisonner les archives de l'esclavage. En ligne depuis 2009, cette plateforme permet d’interroger un corpus inédit et évolutif composé de plus de 20 000 documents portant sur l’une des principales formes de résistance à l’esclavage. Initiative led by the French Atlantic History Group (FRQSC) in collaboration with the project "SHADD Biography Project: Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade" (CRSH), "Marronnage in the Atlantic World" aims to decompartmentalize the archives of slavery.

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.

Scheepsreizen van de MCC - Zeeuws Archief / Ship voyages of the MCC - Zeeuws Archief

Nearly 300 voyages across the world's oceans by the Middelburg Commercie Compagnie out of Zeeland, Netherlands. For trading and making profit. Trade in goods and approximately 31,000 enslaved Africans. Map, ships, persons, explanation, and blog.

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.

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