Archives of slavers will be available online

The British Origin project ( Ancestry.co.uk ), along with its counterparts in Australia , Canada , Canada and the United States, after its renewal last fall, has already helped millions of people in the Old and New World find out who their ancestors were and learn their family history archives of the census bureau, customs, lists of participants in hostilities and other official records accumulated since the end of the XVIII century. Last week, the project took an important step forward by starting to add archival documents to searchable and exploring documents containing information about slaves who lived in the colonies and metropolis of the former British Empire from 1812 to 1834.

The first part of the documents was published last Friday: a census of 100,000 slaves on the island of Barbados in 1834. The census was then carried out in connection with the law of the same year, which put an end to slavery in the British colonies. Until the end of December, information will also become available on another 3 million slaves, collected on 700 registers from 23 colonies.

Today, 2% of the population of the United Kingdom, 6% of the population of the former Portuguese colony of Brazil, about 10% of the population of France and 12% of the US population are descendants of Afro-descendants. After the introduction of the state monopoly of Holland, Great Britain and France to the slave trade, this continent suffered most from the barbaric anti-human attitude of the colonialists. From the entire territory from the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope, the indigenous population of millions were sent as labor to all parts of the world. To some extent, these were civilian workers, but in most cases they were taken from their native shores.

Therefore, the general availability of any data that would help all these people find out about their roots has become a truly important goal.