UK Historians Launch Project to Digitise Testimony of Enslaved People in British Guiana

UK historians launch project to digitise testimony of Enslaved People in British Guiana

Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project. (The University of Edinburgh) An international team will analyse the testimony of hundreds of enslaved people who sought legal redress for the abuses and hardships they endured under British slavery. The project will be ground-breaking as the digital resource it will create is being built from words spoken by enslaved people…

Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life

The National Archives is working with international academics to make the largest collection of first-person testimony of enslaved people from the Caribbean in existence – the Reports of the Protectors of Slaves – accessible to researchers anywhere in the world. Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana will digitise, map and analyse the records which are here at Kew and allow researchers to examine how enslaved peo…