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From Information World Review:

Government records from one of history's darker periods made freely available

An online archive detailing the names of slaves traded by the British has been launched as part of a series of events marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.

Ancestry.co.uk documents nearly 100,000 slaves owned by British colonists in Barbados during the early 19th Century and aims to eventually detail three million names.

The site, which is free, has taken the first step in the project by listing the 1834 Barbados Slave Register which has the names of 99,349 slaves, and 5,206 slave owners, working out at an average of 19 slaves per owner.