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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people searchable online
Original: "Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online" This is a boon for many Afric
Nearly four million records documenting enslaved people across 20 former British colonies have been made searchable online. The archive allows African-Americans and others to trace ancestors previously lost to fragmented colonial records. Commenters are calling it a major resource for genealogical research and reckonings with the legacy of slavery.
Why now: The launch of a searchable archive of millions of slavery records is a significant new tool for ancestry research and historical accountability.
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- "Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online" This is a boon for many African-Americans trying to learn more about their ancestry. https://www. theguardian.com/news/2026/sep/… · aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social · 32
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