The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database now comprises 36,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world. They provide information about vessels, routes, and the people associated with them, both enslaved and enslavers.
The Database. At the core of the completed project is this online Encyclopaedia of British Slave-ownership containing information about (1) every slave-owner in the British Caribbean, Mauritius or the Cape at the moment of abolition in 1833; (2) all the estates we have identified in the British Caribbean in the period 1763-1833; and (3) all the slave-owners, attorneys, mortgagees and legatees.
This was known as the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The trans-Atlantic slave trade was an involuntary voyage of Africans from their homeland, across the Atlantic Ocean, to the New World. The trans-Atlantic slave trade caused the deportation of millions of Africans to the Western hemisphere of the world.
The Atlantic Slave Trade The changes in African life during the slave trade era form an important element in the economic and technological development of Africa. Although the Atlantic slave trade had a negative effect on both the economy and technology, it is important to understand that slavery was not a new concept to Africa.
He was specifically active in the anti-slave trade movement during the 1780s. When he published his autobiography entitled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, he helped abolish the African slave trade. His book had gone through nine editions and aided the passage of the British Slave Trade Act of 1807.
Slave registers, 1813-1834. Search on Ancestry.co.uk by enslaved person’s name, year of birth, owner’s name, colony and sometimes parish where resident in the Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1813-1834 (free to view). These records are drawn from National Archives series T 71, which includes some records unavailable on Ancestry.co.uk (see below).