Caribbean Chattel Slavery

At the core of the project is a database containing, first, the identity of all slave-owners in the British colonies at the time slavery ended and, second, all the estates in the British Caribbean colonies. As the two earlier phases of work unfolded, we amassed, analysed and incorporated information about the activities, affiliations and legacies of all the British slave-owners on the database, building this Encyclopedia of British Slave-Owners.

The Early Caribbean Digital Archive is an open access collection of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been brought together before as a single collection focused on the Caribbean. The materials in the archive are primarily authored and published by Europeans, but the ECDA aims to use digital tools to "remix" the archive and foreground the centrality and creativity of enslaved and free African, Afro-creole, and Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean world.

The Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) facilitates the digitisation of archives around the world that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. Thanks to generous funding from Arcadia, a charitable foundation that works to preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge, we have provided grants to almost 500 projects in over ninety countries worldwide, in more than a hundred languages and scripts.

Since 2018, Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org) has been serving the needs of scholars, genealogists, students, and members of the public interested in the people of the historical slave trade. Enslaved.org is a discovery hub that helps users to search and find information from a large and growing number of datasets and digital projects.

In 1807 The Abolition of Slave Trade Act came into force. The act made the trade in slaves from Africa to the British colonies illegal. To combat illicit transportation following this act many of the British Colonies began keeping registers of black slaves who had been so-called “lawfully enslaved”. In 1819 the Office for the Registry of Colonial Slaves was established in London and copies of the slave registers kept by the colonies were sent to this office. Registration generally occurred once every three years. The registers continue through to 1834 when slavery was officially abolished.

British manumissions: manumissions for slaves from Trinidad, Barbados and Jamaica; correspondence with David Barclay; manumissions for David Barclay's slaves Indentures: Masters names, A - Perrot

Sixty-seven miscellaneous slave documents listing individual slaves, their physical characteristics, and ownership. Most of the slaves belonged to smaller households in the northeast part of the island, and many were young children.

See narrative accounts from missionaries combine with colonial statistics to create a picture of these former colonies' development. Learn how owners of an Antiguan sugar plantation adapted to emancipation, and witness the nature of missionaries' roles in the slave trade. Together, these collections reveal how governments, slave owners and missionaries shaped the development of these countries over three centuries.

ShipIndex.org simplifies vessel research. Whether you’re a genealogist, a maritime historian, a researcher, or just curious, we can help you learn more about the ships that interest you. We tell you which maritime resources, such as books, journals, magazines, newspapers, CD-ROMs, websites, and online databases mention the ships that interest you. We enhance these references by noting which ones include illustrations or crew and passenger lists, and where you can find or purchase the resource.

The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas. Explore where they were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the horrific loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the perpetrators, and much more.

The Slave Societies Digital Archive (formerly Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies) preserves the most extensive serial records for the history of Africans in the Atlantic World and includes valuable information about the indigenous, European, and Asian populations who lived alongside them. SSDA holdings include more than 700,000 digital images dating from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries that document the lives of an estimated four to six million individuals. SSDA teams digitized most of these records, but generous scholars have also donated smaller personal collections to our archive.

SSDA’s primary goal is to identify, catalogue, and preserve endangered records for the study of slave societies, but our teams have also produced transcriptions of these unique documents linked to the original images. This site also features related resources to assist scholars in their research. We welcome feedback and encourage researchers to share any work that they develop using the Slave Societies Digital Archive.

Follow the slave trade from Africa and America to Britain through these records. See who traded in slaves, read accounts of their transportation and learn about the plantations where they were forced to work. Then uncover the philosophies that endorsed or fought against the existence of this trade in people.

This database has been compiled from the returns of people who received compensation following the 1833 emancipation act which freed slaves in the British colonies in the Caribbean, Bermuda, Belize, Guyana, Mauritius and Cape Colony (South Africa).

Find out about Bristol’s role in the transatlantic slave trade. Who was involved, what was bought and sold, who stopped it, and what is the effect of the trade today?

The Digital Library of the Caribbean is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean & circum-Caribbean.

The Early Caribbean Digital Archive is an open access collection of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been brought together before as a single collection focused on the Caribbean. The materials in the archive are primarily authored and published by Europeans, but the ECDA aims to use digital tools to "remix" the archive and foreground the centrality and creativity of enslaved and free African, Afro-creole, and Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean world.

History Hub is a research support community for everyone, including genealogists, historians, and citizen archivists.

This is a virtual genealogy library for those researching family history for Jamaica, West Indies, especially for people born before 1920. The site contains transcriptions from various documents including nineteenth century Jamaica Almanacs (which list property owners and civil and military officials), Jamaica Directories for 1878, 1891 and 1910, extractions from Jamaican Church records, Civil Registration, Wills, Jewish records, and excerpts from newspapers, books, and other documents. There is information on immigration and on slavery.

What was the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans? Who benefitted from it? What was Bristol’s involvement and what are its legacies today?

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery aims to identify, digitize, transcribe, and publish ads placed in newspapers across the United States (and beyond) by formerly enslaved people searching for family members and loved ones after emancipation. These newspaper ads began appearing in the 1830s (our earliest ad appeared in The Liberator in 1832) and greatly increased in frequency in the years immediately following emancipation (1865) and continued well into the 20th century. (The collection includes an ad that appeared in The Richmond Planet in 1922.) These ads not only document the extensive separation of Black families through the domestic slave trade but also attest to the persistent efforts thousands of people made to reunite with those from whom they had been separated. In the ads, mothers search for children separated through sale, daughters and sons seek parents, men and women inquire about partners and spouses, and siblings search for one another—they include names, describe events, and recall last seen locations. All this information, crucial to genealogists and scholars alike, is published in this open-access collection.

Maroon Country is a multimedia educational resource focused on the history of maroons, the independent and resistant black communities of the slavery-era Caribbean. The resource will focus on maroon history and culture in Dominica and the Eastern Caribbean, including the French West Indies. The web resource will include manuscripts and archival material for scholars’ further research, exhibits and analysis for use by teachers and students of high school and college. The site, built on the Omeka platform, will also include for younger audiences a game app featuring historically accurate maroon characters, events and artifacts, and a children’s short story for web, e-book and print formats.

This study chronicles the lives of all people known to have lived on Mountravers sugar plantation on the Caribbean island of Nevis, from its early beginnings until 1834 when slavery ended in most parts of the British Empire and the apprenticeship period began. It is the first known longitudinal study of an entire plantation population in which a variety of primary sources has been meshed together: plantation records, business correspondence and accounts, official 'slave inventories', parish registers and legal documents. Secondary sources have been used to underpin arguments or when there were no original records available.

M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark tells the story of Denmark as one of the world's leading maritime nations in an evocative and dramatic way.

You can visit the digital image archive here where more than 60.000 photos are digitalized (in Danish).

The Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Britain project has created a searchable database of well over eight hundred newspaper advertisements placed by masters and owners seeking the capture and return of enslaved and bound people who had escaped. Many were of African descent, though a small number were from the Indian sub-continent and a few were Indigenous Americans. To the enslaved flight represented one of the greatest acts of self-determination, and some historians have argued that runaways challenged the slave system from within and contributed to their own and others' eventual emancipation. While some were not enslaved, many were described by their masters as slaves and property. And while they were vulnerable to transport back to colonies where their status would be, at best, uncertain, few could enjoy complete freedom in Great Britain.

History of two estates that were established for colonists on St. Croix island. Includes some history of the Christmas and Moorhead families.

Index of enslaved people in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles who were emancipated in 1863.

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Of the thirteen defining migrations that formed and transformed African America, only the transatlantic slave trade and the domestic slave trades were coerced, the eleven others were voluntary movements of resourceful and creative men and women, risk-takers in an exploitative and hostile environment. Their survival skills, efficient networks, and dynamic culture enabled them to thrive and spread, and to be at the very core of the settlement and development of the Americas. Their hopeful journeys changed not only their world and the fabric of the African Diaspora but also the Western Hemisphere.

Granger Academic provides access to Granger's vast and vibrant archive of historical pictures. Many of these images are not available anywhere else, and for the first time we have made our collection available free of charge to teachers, librarians and students.

Mary Evans Picture Library licenses images for use in books, newspapers, exhibitions, websites and all manner of other media. Our images cover a broad range of topics, with the overarching themes of history and film. Our range, however, extends far beyond most people's perception of historical pictures, to include areas such as fashion, design, society and, uniquely, the paranormal.

10 Million Names is a collaborative project dedicated to recovering the names of the estimated 10 million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America (specifically, the territory that would become the United States) between the 1500s and 1865.

The project seeks to amplify the voices of people who have been telling their family stories for centuries, connect researchers and data partners with people seeking answers to family history questions, and expand access to data, resources, and information about enslaved African Americans.

The ACTe Memorial “Caribbean Center of Expression and Memory of Human Trafficking and Slavery” is located on the coast of Guadeloupe Island, in the space where the old Darboussier sugar factory operated. This was the largest sugar factory in the Antilles during the slave period.

Supporting the preservation of our African Heritage and the memory of our African Ancestors who were enslaved in Antigua and Barbuda.

The Association of Former British Colonies (AFBC) examines the legacies of British colonisation through educational content and social dialogue.

This research centre aims to focus attention on slavery and its legacies in Scotland and globally, through academic research, public events, and engagement with ongoing anti-racist activism and reparative justice.

The date of this centre's launch is significant. The name was chosen for the centre because Beniba was a woman, a mother, who was held in slavery by Robert Cunningham Graham, former Rector of the University of Glasgow (1785-1787). Very little is known about the life of Beniba, but her name indicates that she was born on a Tuesday and was perhaps, of Akan origin. For that reason, the centre was launched on a Tuesday - to give respect and remembrance to the innumerable lives of ancestral Africans and their contributions throughout the slavery era.

The Black Consciousness Festival is a global platform that connects people of African descent with each other by sharing and encouraging exchange, through information, traditions, histories, intentions, traumas, celebrations, legacies, and stories connecting to pride, power and practice.

The festival builds awareness around how each of us can take the necessary steps for restitution (healing) and reparation (repair).

Welcome to the Center for Family History, a groundbreaking research center dedicated to assisting individuals, like you, reconnect with their family history and ancestors. Whether you are an experienced genealogist or just getting started on your journey, we’re here to help you find connections to your ancestors and discover more of your story.

The Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS) supports and shares leading research about human enslavement and its legacies. Founded in May 2006 and based in Liverpool, a major slaving port with ships and merchants dominating the transatlantic slave trade in the second half of the eighteenth century. As well as being one of Europe’s hubs of international trade and migration for centuries. The Centre is in a unique position to develop an international and interdisciplinary understanding of the global impact of slavery.

Association mémorielle agissant pour honorer les victimes de l’esclavage colonial.

The Coming to the Table vision for the United States is of a just and truthful society that acknowledges and seeks to heal from the racial wounds of the past—from slavery and the many forms of racism it spawned.

Coming to the Table provides leadership, resources, and a supportive environment for all who wish to acknowledge and heal wounds from racism that is rooted in the United States’ history of slavery.

Tula was the leader of the Curaçao slave revolt of 1795. Curaçao was taken over by the West India Company (WIC) in 1634. As a slave, Tula worked for years on the Knip plantation in the west of Curaçao. He protested against the injustice done to the slaves and strove for freedom and equality. Together with fifty other of his fellow slaves, he took the initiative to stop working on 17 August 1795 and to plead for their freedom. This was the beginning of the largest slave revolt in the history of the Netherlands Antilles.

Step into the vibrant world of the recently reopened Museo Tula. As the island’s pioneering community museum, we present a Museum without Walls, featuring diverse artworks both within and around our space. Explore exhibits honoring ancestors, revealing their history and resilience. Museo Tula delves into themes of resistance, resilience, and emancipation, offering insights into slave revolts, escape, language preservation, and leadership. Join us to discover and celebrate the spirit of our community.

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition is part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. Since its founding in 1998, the Gilder Lehrman Center has been dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning slavery and its legacies across all borders and all time, from the distant past through the present day. The Center fosters improved understandings of the role of slavery, anti-slavery, and the lasting harms of slavery in the functioning of the modern world. Through fellowships, workshops, public programs, and digital resources, the Gilder Lehrman Center supports scholarship, public history, and public education.

We are a small group of British people who have researched their family histories, and learned that their ancestors made significant wealth from, or helped organise, more than two centuries of industrialised enslavement of Africans in the Americas. Our ancestors were plantation owners, slave traders, merchants, bankers, investors, soldiers, lawyers and lawmakers. We want to lend our voices and our influence, such as it is, in support of campaigns to tackle the ongoing consequences of the transatlantic slavery era.

I Am Queen Mary is a transnational public art project created by La Vaughn Belle of the US Virgin Islands and Jeannette Ehlers of Denmark-two artists connected by their shared Caribbean roots and colonial histories. Together they created the first collaborative sculpture to memorialize Denmark’s colonial impact in the Caribbean and those who fought against it. This monumental work debuted in March 2018 in front of the West Indian warehouse in Copenhagen in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the sale and transfer of the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) to the United States. As the first monument to a Black woman in Denmark, I Am Queen Mary made international headlines as a symbol that celebrates and centers the story of people who resisted Danish colonialism in the Caribbean. In 2020 the Danish government granted permission to permanently install I Am Queen Mary in front of a former colonial warehouse in Copenhagen, acknowledging the work's shift from a temporary artwork to an important landmark in the city.

The International Slavery Museum increases the understanding of transatlantic, chattel and other forms of enslavement. Through our collections, public engagement and research, we explore their impact and legacies.

We are a campaigning museum that actively engages with contemporary human rights issues. We address ignorance and challenge intolerance, building partnerships with museums, communities and organisations that share our vision.

Mapping Slavery is een publieksgeschiedenis project. We geven aandacht aan het Nederlandse slavernijverleden en het erfgoed hieraan verbonden. We stellen de volgende onderzoeksvragen:

• Wie profiteerde van slavernij in Nederland en haar koloniën?

• Waar woonden deze mensen en waar maakten ze beslissingen over slavernij en slavenhandel?

• Welke sporen van slavernij vinden we terug in Nederland? In de straten, musea, archieven en het cultureel archief?

• Waar vinden we Afrikaanse en Aziatische aanwezigheid in Nederland door de eeuwen heen?

The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP) is a non-profit tax-exempt organization established in 2011 to honor the two million captive Africans who perished during the transatlantic crossing known as the Middle Passage and the ten million who survived to build the Americas.

Like many plantations in Barbados, Morgan Lewis inherited its name from its first owner – Morgan Lewis. The name first appears in Barbados’ historical record in 1674 and has been retained until the present. In 1721 Morgan Lewis is sold to the John Hannis who owns the plantation for a brief period until he sells it to the Gibbons family in 1736. Morgan Lewis plantation remained in the Gibbons family until the nineteenth century.

Museum Kurá Hulanda is an anthropological museum that focuses on the predominant cultures of Curaçao. It offers a world-class chronicle of the Origin of Man, the African slave trade, West African Empires, Mesopotamian artifacts and Antillean art. The museum exhibits the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in its entirety, from slavery capture in Africa through the Middle Passage and the relocation to the New World. With a vast collection of artifacts from continental Africa, this museum demonstrates the dynamic vitality and great empires of West Africa and how the African and diverse cultural heritage has influenced Curaçao and Caribbean societies until today.

Within the next few years, the Nationaal Slavernijmuseum, a new national museum of slavery, should open its doors to the public. Documenting the history of transatlantic slavery and slavery in the Dutch colonies in the Indian Ocean will be the museum’s guiding principle. The museum’s content will target a broad audience, with a focus on education, art, information and research. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science supports the initiative.

The Our HERitage project highlights the stories of Caribbean women during the colonial period (including slavery and indentured labor) of the Netherlands. The initiative aims to give more recognition to this often forgotten heritage and to make the diversity within the Caribbean community (including Suriname and Guyanas) visible.

Het project Our HERitage belicht de verhalen van Caribische vrouwen tijdens de koloniale periode (inclusief slavernij en contractarbeid) van Nederland. Het initiatief wil meer erkenning geven aan dit vaak vergeten erfgoed en het wil de diversiteit binnen de Caribische gemeenschap (inclusief Suriname en Guyana’s) zichtbaar maken.

Savonet museum is established in the former plantation house (Landhuis) of the Savonet Plantation, one of the largest and oldest plantations of Curaçao, located in the heart of Christoffelpark. The museum provides visitors with a glimpse into the lives of the former inhabitants of the area. From the earliest Arawak Indians who arrived at the island almost 4000 years ago to modern times. The Savonet museum tells the story from the first inhabitants of Bandabou to the present day by using historical artifacts. The slogan of Savonet ‘where culture meets nature’ is honored with the exhibition ‘nos naturalesa (our nature)’, which shows an overview of our rich nature.

The Saint Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC) was established in Nov. 2013, following the decision earlier that year by CARICOM member-states to establish a regional commission to pursue reparations for slavery from Britain and Europe.

Sites of Memory Foundation (SoM) organizes activities around the hidden and under-represented stories of our shared cultural heritage of the Netherlands and the former colonies.It is founded by Jennifer Tosch (cultural historian and founder of the Black Heritage Tours) and Katy Streek (theatre maker and programmer).

Since 2016 they create site specific performances about the 'hidden' stories about the history of slavery and colonialism.

This project has been constructed as a memorial, as a site of mourning and grieving, as a gesture of gratitude and appreciation, and as a catalyst for the ongoing recognition, exploration, and presentation of the enslaved persons of African descent at Rose Hall. This space is a dedicated space of remembrance for all those named and unnamed who heretofore have not been publicly acknowledged or memorialized. It was also conceived in recognition of, and resistance to, what continues to be silenced about them and the institution of slavery today. We hope this website will encourage others to carve out spaces, virtual and otherwise, for the necessary and continuous remembrance of enslaved Africans and their descendants throughout the African diaspora.

Plantage Matuaribo is een levend symbool van onze gedeelde geschiedenis, verbondenheid en kracht.
Als Vereniging Plantage Matuaribo maken wij het culturele erfgoed van onze voorouders zichtbaar en voelbaar, in zowel Nederland als Suriname.

Wij koesteren de geschiedenis waarin slavernij, strijd en gemeenschapskracht samenkomen, en benadrukken de waarde van de plantage als historisch cultureel erfgoed.

Dit erfgoed vormt niet alleen een bron van herinnering, maar ook een fundament waarop toekomstige generaties kunnen bouwen.

Met elkaar dragen wij deze levende erfenis verder met respect voor het verleden en hoop voor de toekomst.

While roaming about St. Croix, people wonder about the stone towers dotting the landscape. Many of these towers were windmills built for crushing sugar cane (why we use the word windmills, not sugar mills). Of the 150-160 windmills for crushing sugar cane ever built on St. Croix, 119 have been located. This website provides the location of each windmill, how each one appears on historic maps, and current photos. You can learn more about the selection of these photos and map snippets.

Donna Cox Baker and Frazine K. Taylor conceived the Beyond Kin Project in 2016 as a way to encourage and facilitate the documentation of enslaved populations, particularly by recruiting the resources and efforts of the descendants of slaveholders.

Clifton Estate in the parish of St Thomas Lowland on the West Indian island of Nevis has been acquired by a new owner relatively recently. Together with the neighbouring estate of Tower Hill, it is currently undergoing a process of conservation of both its natural and historic environments.

This report was commissioned in the hope that a search through the documentary evidence might provide a historical context for what is, or is not, revealed through archaeological investigation of the landscape and the preservation of historic remains.

Donise Smith Lei contacted Your DNA Guide for some coaching. She was putting the finishing touches on her new book, Delving into My Bitterroots: How I Resurrected My Enslaved Ancestor, Granvill, and So Can You. Before going to press, she wanted an expert review of the way she’d applied DNA testing results to identifying her 3X great-grandfather, Granvill, who was enslaved.

With her permission, we share the following tips that came out of her coaching session with Diahan Southard. We hope these tips will help others who are searching for the identities of enslaved ancestors, because we recognize that this can be so challenging.

Members of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative met with Prime Minister Gaston A. Browne and Governor General Rodney E.L. Williams of Antigua and Barbuda on Wednesday after the initiative’s research team determined that “several hundred people” had been enslaved by Harvard affiliates in the island nation between the 1660s and 1815.

Grenadian surnames are not purely baggage from our enslaved ancestors. Slavery is the reason for the lack of surnames in the first place, but the ones we have bear the names of our ancestors, much as surnames are supposed to. As such, these surnames may lead to Grenadians today finding their enslaved ancestors on Slave Registers and other lists if aware of the village (and thus plantation) where your family originated.

Researching enslaved ancestors in the former British Empire is not as hopeless as it may initially seem. With well kept records and archives now available online, researching enslaved ancestors is possible. Here we share some strategies to aid in your research.

Tracing the African roots of the Afro-Diaspora is also about reaffirming the lost identities of ancestors who were caught up in the most dehumanizing circumstances of slavery. I personally strongly believe that in order to truly honour your many dozens or even hundreds of African born forefathers and foremothers (see “Fictional Family Tree incl. African Born Ancestors“) taking a critical stance regarding the claims of DNA testing is a must. Naively taking your results at face value and just going for quick and easy answers could very well lead to gravely misidentifying the main lineages of your African ancestry, which would be tragic indeed inspite of all good intentions.

The anglophone Caribbean and other parts of the former British empire celebrate Emancipation Day on the First of August, commemorating the abolition of slavery on August 1, 1804. In this episode, Dr. Natasha Lightfoot joins us for a discussion on Antigua's intricate story of emancipation, freedom, and the impact of colonialism then and now. 

Conversations in Atlantic Theory is a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theory to the black Atlantic to sites of indigenous resistance and self-articulation, as well as the complex geography of thinking between traditions, inside traditions, and from positions of insurgency, critique, and counternarrative.

This is a podcast about Caribbean History and a good resource for individuals researching their family history.

Maroon populations across Latin America and the Caribbean have a unique history of self-emancipation  and, for some, sovereignty. In this episode, His Excellency, Chief Richard Currie, Head of State of Cockpit Country, one of Jamaica's maroon communities, joins us for a necessary discussion on the maroons' origins and their significance in Jamaican history.

Exploring the true story of British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and how it touches every part of the nation. Hosted by Moya Lothian-McLean, a journalist and descendent of both Black African Slaves and White slave owners or overseers.

There are stories we typically don't tell during Women's History Month, one of which is the narrative of Judith Phillip (1760-1848), an enslaver from Grenada whose family's dominion over Carriacou and Petit Martinique tells a story not just of land and wealth but race and colonial allegiances against the backdrop of the transatlantic slave trade. This episode discusses the intricacies of Caribbean history, weaving the personal story of a mixed-race family into the broader fabric of 18th-century Caribbean society.

Join Strictly Facts as we uncover how Judith's French baker father and her mother, an enslaved woman, rose to prominence to own plantations and amass a fortune. We'll explore the societal structures that allowed their family to thrive in an era of oppression and how their legacy challenges our understanding of Caribbean history and power at the time. In this final episode for Women's History Month, we share the tale of inheritance, power, and the complexity of free mixed-race individuals during a time when such narratives are rarely told.

Episode six of the new season of Pieces of History takes us beneath the waves, where archaeology and history converge to uncover lost stories of the transatlantic slave trade. In this episode, we explore the groundbreaking work of the Slave Wrecks Project, an international effort to locate and study shipwrecks tied to the global slave trade.

Joining me is Dr. Steve Lubkemann, maritime archaeologist and one of the project’s founding members. We’ll delve into how the Slave Wrecks Project began, the cutting-edge methodologies used to find and analyse these wrecks, and what these discoveries reveal about the millions of lives affected by the slave trade. From underwater surveys to the challenges of working in politically and environmentally complex regions, this episode uncovers how archaeology is reshaping our understanding of one of history’s darkest chapters.

Tianna Mobley is a Ph.D. student of History at Yale University and a Fellow at Humanity in Action. "Untold Histories of the Atlantic World" discusses a range of transatlantic topics such as the Black and Jewish diasporas, indigenous histories, and European colonization. This podcast invites academics, literary scholars, activists, and even interested listeners as guests.

This group is for sharing resources and assisting with research relating to Caribbean ancestry and history.

Welcome to the Caribbean Research Community! This group was created to give people researching the region a place to ask questions, collaborate, and share research with one another.

The purpose of this Group is to bring back into Public Memory those who lived in Ireland or had a connection with Ireland and who were involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade and/or the enslavement of men, women & children in the former British Empire.

This group was established to allow for robust discussion of Liverpool's role in slavery and the slave trade. Although there are a number of Liverpool history groups many of them either do not welcome discussion of this particular subject, or when they do, debate declines into abusive argument. The objective of this forum is therefore to allow for the sharing of knowledge on this emotive subject whilst encouraging respectful discourse.

St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance is fighting to protect a historic burial ground in St. Eustatius, and respectful treatment of the remains of individuals of Afrikan descent that were discovered.

The renewed global call for reparations is about more than money. Amanda travels to Barbados, London and Paris to find out how the movement is making connections to the climate crisis.

Learn how to trace your Afro-Caribbean ancestors from the West Indies, including Barbados, Jamaica, and other places. Presented by Sharon Wilkins, President of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - New York.

The Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP) is a lineage society for descendants of individuals enslaved in English colonial America and the United States of America from 1619-1865. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of freed and enslaved ancestors. This program will explain what is the SDUSMP, how to apply for membership in it, how to find enslaved ancestors, and why it is important to remember them.

An aristocratic British family is to make history by travelling to the Caribbean and publicly apologising for enslaving more than 1,000 people on six plantations. The Trevelyan family, which has many notable ancestors, is also paying reparations to the people of Grenada.

In 1835, the Trevelyan family received £26,898, or £2.6 million (£2,603,247.94) adjusted for inflation, in compensation from the British government for their 'loss of property' after the brutal state-sanctioned system of forced labour and human trafficking was formally ended in 1834.

A £100,000 fund, donated by BBC correspondent Laura Trevelyan, will be formally launched in Grenada on 27 February 2023 by Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the Caricom Reparations Commission, and Trevelyan family members.

In 1834, after Britain abolished slavery, the government decided to compensate 46,000 slave owners for the loss of their "property".

The Trevelyans were among them, recieving a payout of about £34,000 - the equivalent of about £3m in today's money - for the "loss" of some 1,000 slaves.

Nearly 200 years later, BBC correspondent Laura Trevelyan travelled to Grenada in the Caribbean to uncover her family's grim legacy, and learn more about what the ongoing discussions of reparations mean for the island.

Please join RELIC as we welcome Phillip Nicholas for a presentation demonstrating the resources and techniques used to conduct family research of the West Indies, primarily the British West Indies.

These are the names of our Ancestors from the Golden Rock plantation on St. Eustatius as mentioned in the emancipation records of 1863.

How did our Ancestors fare, how did they build their lives, how did they provide a future for their children? Be your ancestors' historian & join the project "Remember Statia: Tracing Our Origins": https://bit.ly/statia-ancestors

Our Ancestors Live In Us.

SECAR.org and other archaeologists who excavated the remains of our Afrikan ancestors at the Godet site, where are the remains of several of our ancestors now? And why did you leave the site with such a horrific disrespect for the human remains that are still there? Just some rocks and a piece of tarpaulin is utterly disrespectful.

The burial ground of the former Godet Plantation is situated at the West coast of St. Eustatius. From historical records is known that behind the walls of Fort Amsterdam (or the Waterfort) stood the ‘slave house.’ This slave depot was where the enslaved Africans were put when they arrived on St. Eustatius and where they awaited being auctioned. This was in the mid 1700’s.

This location is of great historical importance to the people of St. Eustatius. The site is however one of the most critically endangered locations of the island because of the aggressive erosion taking place here.

What happened to all sugar plantations in Jamaica? Are they still owned by the descendants of former planters? Are any of them still in operation or used as tourist attractions?

This episode is about Jamaican Georgian Architecture, a vanishing legacy that doesn't usually get the attention it deserves.

Learn about the British Army's service in the Caribbean, how their presence influenced life in the region and how West Indians have contributed to the British Army over the past 300 years. Made with the support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

This presentation will discuss the use of rumour by elite men in the Lesser Antilles from 1829-1830, following the story of Antony O’Hannan, Roman Catholic rector of Grenada, whose commitment to his enslaved and free congregation made him dangerous to both Catholic and secular authorities.

In this video, Researching Female Ancestors of the Caribbean, Sharon Tomlin delves into ways we can research African-Caribbean female ancestry. Encouraging dialogue across the generations to understand the pioneers of the past and to discover the pioneers within their own family.

This presentation was part of RootsTech Connect 2021.

In this recorded National Library of Scotland event, David Alston discusses his new book, 'Slaves and Highlanders', with Juanita Cox of Guyana SPEAKS.

In his book, Alston presents a major contribution to the debate on reparation by reappraising Scots involvement and complicity in the slave trade. He explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in exploitation of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries.

In this talk Matthew Lee, a PhD student co-supervised by staff at the Library, examines Scotland’s relationship with the Atlantic slave trade through our collections, based on a recent cataloguing project.

This paper draws on a Black feminist lens to read against the silencing violence of the slavery archives and reveal a dynamic (if sometimes controversial) and creolizing process of identity formation of free and enslaved Black women who, through resistance and/or accommodation, subverted the socio-political structures of colonial power and negotiated their place in the plantation economies of the Caribbean. Peggy incorporates archival and archaeological methods alongside intersectional theory to reveal an alternative narrative of Atlantic enslaved and free communities.

In this episode I speak with Dr Dexter Gabriel about Emancipation & Apprenticeship System in British Caribbean.

In this episode I speak with David Beck Ryden (Associate Professor of History, University of Houston - Downtown) has degrees in Economics and History from Connecticut College (BA), the University of Delaware's College of Business and Economics (MA), and the University of Minnesota's Department of History (Ph.D.). He is the author of several articles on British American slave societies for Slavery and Abolition, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Social Science History. He is also editor of The Promoters of the Slave Trade, a collection of pro-slavery pamphlets produced by West Indian planters during the age of abolition. The Economic History Association selected Ryden's dissertation as a finalist for the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize. He was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Department of American Studies and History at Brunel University in London.

In this episode I will be speaking with Victoria Barnett-Woods who is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Loyola University Maryland in the Humanities Department. Where she specializes in literature of the long eighteenth century. Currently is the Associate Director for student programming & experimental learning at the Starr Centre Washington College.

In this episode I speak with Dr. Justine K Collins about the Barbados Slave Code 1660's. Dr Justine K Collins is a Legal Historian and a Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer at SOAS University of London, Faculty of Law.

In this episode I speak with Dudley McLean II in regards the article he wrote for the Jamaica Observer Jamaica's best kept secret: Blacks owned slaves Article:

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/the-a...

In today's episode I speak with Dr. Kofi Barima who is an assistant professor at Jackson State University of Public History and the Atlantic World ( African Diaspora Specialty). We discuss Dr. Kofi Barima paper of Obeah impact on slave revolt in Jamaica

In this episode, host Wendy Aris is joined by Dr. Colleen A. VASCONCELLOS, Associate Professor of History at the University of West Georgia, to delve into her book Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838.

Discover the often-overlooked experiences of enslaved children during this turbulent period as Dr. VASCONCELLOS sheds light on their lives, struggles, and resilience. Learn about the legislative milestones, the impact of the abolitionist movement, and the enduring legacy of slavery on education and public health in Jamaica today.

Welcome to the Dis a fi mi History Podcast! In this episode, host Wendy Aris is joined by Dr. Colleen A. VASCONCELLOS, Associate Professor of History at the University of West Georgia, to delve into her book Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838.

Discover the often-overlooked experiences of enslaved children during this turbulent period as Dr. VASCONCELLOS sheds light on their lives, struggles, and resilience. Learn about the legislative milestones, the impact of the abolitionist movement, and the enduring legacy of slavery on education and public health in Jamaica today.

Join us for a profound discussion that uncovers the layers of history and brings the stories of these children out of the shadows.

In this episode, we delve into the rich world of the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) with the insights of Professors Nicole Aljo and Elizabeth Dillon, alongside their dedicated team.

We explore the origins and objectives of the ECDA, a publicly accessible archive platform that houses a vast collection of pre-20th century Caribbean materials. Learn about their mission to decolonize and democratize knowledge by surfacing hidden narratives, such as those of enslaved individuals, embedded within historical texts.

The team also shares their experiences and methodologies in curating and digitizing these invaluable resources, offering a glimpse into some fascinating exhibits like Obeah practices and Jamaican Heirs. Discover how you can navigate the archive, contribute to ongoing projects, and even use these resources for family research and educational purposes.

Join us for a compelling discussion on the importance of preserving and accessing Caribbean history, both for understanding our past and informing our present.

This webinar is the second panel in the series of online discussions about the Anglican Church and Slavery entitled Truth Telling: Slavery and the Anglican Church, held in advance of the flagship international convening planned in 2025 to explore the historical involvement of the Anglican Church in the institution of slavery, the lasting implications of colonialism on the Church and actions to progress racial justice by the Church of England Racial Justice Unit (CoERJU).

This webinar. ‘Women, Slavery and the Church’ will consider specifically the role of women:

• as enslavers/beneficiaries of African enslavement and their links to the Anglican church,
• as resistors/rebels against slavery (including as church leaders)
• and how women, especially Black women, are viewed in the church today as a result of slavery.

Mr. Marsh talks about the layout of the ruins, the history of the site and how it was used, and the legacy and responsibility we have as Virgin Islanders to preserve these historical spaces.

A virtual discussion from Friday December 18, 2020 on plantation archaeology in Jamaica and the role of the plantation in shaping complex colonial transformations that continue to structure life on the island and in the wider Caribbean. This installment focuses on case studies of sugar estates from the Parish of Trelawny. Contributors highlight their different approaches to landscapes of sugar production, transportation networks, structures and machinery, and community life.

An unexpected opportunity to travel to Cuba presented itself while Theresa was working at the Smithsonian that ultimately led to developing an archaeological project at a former coffee plantation with a unique slave settlement that was fully enclosed within a tall masonry wall. Undertaking this research project turned Theresa’s understanding of slavery on its head as well as broaden her understanding of the Afro-Latin American Diaspora.

The Rhind Lectures 2022, “Unearthing the African Diaspora” are presented by Professor Theresa Singleton PhD FSA. Livestreamed and recorded by the Society at Augustine United Church. Sponsored by AOC Archaeology Group. 

The Centre for the Study of International Slavery was honored to present 'Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt' in conversation with illustrators Sakina Karimjee and Nic Watts. See both creators speak with Dr Jess White on the process of bringing this story alive through illustration.

The bloody labor revolt of 1878, known as the Fireburn, is but one life-altering event that helped shape people’s lives, as well as the economy of the US Virgin Islands. It was a pivotal event in the history of the Virgin Islands, but what really happened? The Fireburn documentary explores the inhumane conditions that existed prior to the revolt and looks at the women who were called “Queens” due to their leadership.

www.fireburndocumentary.com