Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Archival images from British Enslavement Registers/T71 collection. Composed with selections from a portrait of Civil War 'contrabands,' fugitive slaves who were emancipated upon reaching the North of the US in the 1860s. Composite: Guardian/Getty/British Enslavement RegistersView image in fullscreenArchival images from British Enslavement Registers/T71 collection.
- ▪Archival images from British Enslavement Registers/T71 collection.
- ▪Composed with selections from a portrait of Civil War 'contrabands,' fugitive slaves who were emancipated upon reaching the North of the US in the 1860s.
- ▪Composite: Guardian/Getty/British Enslavement RegistersView image in fullscreenArchival images from British Enslavement Registers/T71 collection.
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| Original publisher | The Guardian — World |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/sep/22/nearly-4m-records-of-enslaved-people-in-20-former-british-colonies-now-searchable-online |
| Publication time | Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:00:36 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-22T05:13:49.430Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-22T05:13:49.430Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Archival images from British Enslavement Registers/T71 collection. Composed with selections from a portrait of Civil War 'contrabands,' fugitive slaves who were emancipated upon reaching the North of the US in the 1860s. Composite: Guardian/Getty/British Enslavement RegistersView image in fullscreenArchival images from British Enslavement Registers/T71 collection. Composed with selections from a portrait of Civil War 'contrabands,' fugitive slaves who were emancipated upon reaching the North of the US in the 1860s.
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