Nearly 4 Million Colonial-Era Enslavement Records Digitised And Made Searchable For First Time
London, September 22, 2026: Nearly four million records documenting the lives of enslaved people across 20 former British colonies have been made searchable online for the first time, opening up a vast archive that could help millions of descendants trace their family histories. Genealogy company Ancestry has digitised and indexed the records in partnership with the Centre for the Study of the…
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