Office of Registry of Colonial Slaves and Slave Compensation Commission: Records

Registers of the Office for the Registry of Colonial Slaves, 1813 to 1834, most of which are indexed under the names of the owners or plantations; and records of the Slave Compensation Commission, comprising the proceedings of the assistant commissioners who were sent to the several colonies, valuers’ returns, registers of claims with indexes, original claims and certificates, counter-claims, adjudications in contested cases, certificates for compensation and lists of awards, commissioners’ hearing notes and minutes, accounts, etc.

Selected information about slave owners and the Slave Compensation Commission is searchable through the British slave-ownership database.

Images and indexes to most slave registers are available on Ancestry.

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UK National Archives

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