colonial registrars

Order in Council establishes Trinidad’s compulsory slave registry

📅 26 March 1812

On 26 March 1812, an Order in Council established compulsory registration of enslaved people in Trinidad, the first such registry in the British West Indies. Plantation owners had to report enslaved...

Britain creates a central registry for colonial slave records

📅 12 July 1819

On 12 July 1819, Parliament created a central Registry of Colonial Slaves in Britain to receive copies of registers sent from the colonies and to regulate the removal of enslaved people between...