
In January 2022, the Washington Post published a remarkable database of every member of the United States Congress known to have enslaved other Americans -- a list containing 1,715 names. This project aims to: Add every member of Congress from that list, building new tree branches as needed Note the member of Congress' status as an enslaver on their profile Help add documentation to pr...
British slave owners “The #FridayFact was not only wrongly judged, in numerous respects it was just wrong.” THE LONG ROAD TO ABOLITION ■ In 1807, parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, effective throughout the British empire. ■ It wasn’t until 1838 that slavery was abolished in British colonies through the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British empire thei...
A Sub-project of The Jamaica Out of Many - One People Master Project A project about Jamaican slave owners, slaveholders, and their plantations. See for pictures. Naming conventions First name : Ned Middle name : (blank) Last name : (blank) Birth surname : (blank) Display name : Ned, slave of Agnes Witt Also known as : List of other slave owners EX; Ned the slave of John Blue, N...
This project is about the coffee plantation that existed at Orange Vale, Portland Parish (formerly St. George) in Jamaica, 1780-1850.See accompanying article of same name.a==Summary==Jamaica Surveyed by BW Higman says about Orange Vale (not to be confused with Golden Vale): Few plans of Jamaican coffee plantations exist for the years before 1800. One of the earliest is Robert Leslie's plan of O...