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The current project continues to add information and build the database created in the second phase, aiming to identify of all slave-owners in the British colonies at the time slavery ended (1807–1833), creating the Encyclopedia of British Slave-Owners, as well as all of the estates in the British West Indies. [3]
For instance, English Heritage produced a book on the extensive links between slavery and British country houses in 2013, Jesus College has a working group to examine the legacy of slavery within the college, and the Church of England, the Bank of England, Lloyd's of London and Greene King have all apologised for their historic links to slavery.
New evidence from sources like the Legacy of British Slavery database means that economic historians are inclined to agree. Read More: Inside Barbados' Historic Push for Slavery Reparations.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650–1780 ... The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database; W.
Slavery was abolished in Guyana in 1833. According to the Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the British Empire was the second most involved country, only being surpassed by the Portuguese Empire. The estimated number of people transported across the Atlantic on ships according to the Voyages database is 3,259,443. [12]
"The Captains in the British slave trade from 1785 to 1807" (PDF). Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 140. Gøbel, Erik (2016). The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition. BRILL. Williams, Gomer (1897). History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque: With an Account of the Liverpool Slave Trade. W. Heinemann.
William Beckford's Roaring River Estate near Savanna-la-Mar, engraving (1778) after George Robertson. William Beckford of Somerley, Suffolk was the son of Richard Beckford (c. 1711–1756) and his friend Elizabeth Hay ("whom I have esteemed and do esteem in all respects as my wife" [2]), and was born in Jamaica in 1744 into an influential slave-holding family of colonial Jamaica. [3]