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Genea-Musings: Over One Million Pages of Historical British Newspapers Free to Explore Online

Genea-Musings: Over One Million Pages of Historical British Newspapers Free to Explore Online
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Secrets of rebel slaves in Barbados will finally be revealed

British Library releases vast trove of digitised 19th-century newspapers to bring stories of fugitives to life Little is yet known of Bussa, the man behind the largest slave revolt on Barbados in 1816, but information about his life before this uprising could well lie in the columns of contemporary island newspapers. So too may further clues about what happened to Benebah, a pregnant black woman who stood up to a police officer on the island in 1834, after slavery had officially been abolished. The missing history of these two rebels, along with many other enslaved peoples’ stories, are hiding in plain sight in vast, freshly digitised newspaper records from the island. And now the British Library is to lend its scholastic firepower and invite online volunteers to help to uncover it.

Secrets of rebel slaves in Barbados will finally be revealed

British Library releases vast trove of digitised 19th-century newspapers to bring stories of fugitives to life Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica in 1891. Photograph: Caribbean Photo Archive/Alamy Stock Photo Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica in 1891. Photograph: Caribbean Photo Archive/Alamy Stock Photo Sun 18 Jul 2021 04.30 EDT Little is yet known of Bussa, the man behind the largest slave revolt on Barbados in 1816, but information about his life before this uprising could well lie in the columns of contemporary island newspapers. So too may further clues about what happened to Benebah, a pregnant black woman who stood up to a police officer on the island in 1834, after slavery had officially been abolished.

Secrets of rebel slaves in Barbados will finally be revealed

Secrets of rebel slaves in Barbados will finally be revealed
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