Registry of Slaves of the British Caribbean 1817-1834
Documentary heritage submitted by Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Dominica, Jamaica, St Kitts, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom and recommended for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register in 2009, with an addendum in 2011.
Enslaved Africans made up the great majority of transatlantic migrants who were forcibly removed to the Americas from Columbus' first voyages in the fifteenth century until the nineteenth century. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade, originating in Africa and ending in the Caribbean and the Americas, remains a sensitive subject for several reasons, including issues of race, morality, ethics, identity, underdevelopment and reparations.
- Year of submission: 2008
- Year of inscription: 2009
- Country: Bahamas Belize Dominica Jamaica St Kitts Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom