The structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833

Mapping the ownership of estates and of the enslaved people attached to them from the expansion of the British slave-empire in 1763 to Emancipation in the 1830s. This paper presents some of the new work underway in the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, discussing preliminary findings from the mapping of ownership of estates and of the enslaved people attached to them for the period between the expansion of the British slave-empire in 1763 and Emancipation in the 1830s, and setting out some potential applications of the new material for historians of both Britain and the Caribbean in this period.