Slaves

Britain’s slave trade records go online

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s slave trading past gets a human face on Friday as an ancestry-tracing Web site starts putting the personal histories of the victims online for the first time. The Web site, Ancestry.co.uk, posted 100,000 names of Barbados slaves registered in 1834 in the colony. By December the site will contain the names […]

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