Commercial Legacies Database

Database of commercial continuities, analysing the evolution of merchants, firms and financial institutions receiving slave compensation, and their use of slave-derived wealth in investments in Britain

Access Notes: Dataset included in enslaved.org. Dates are described as "over the 19th century and in some cases into the 20th and even 21st centuries"

Years Covered: 1800-2000

Dataset Format: JSON and RDF in enslaved.org Data on project website is accessible through queries and not downloadable

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Source	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/commercial/
Type of Slavery Practice	Chattel slavery
Type of Source	Statistical dataset / spreadsheet
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Author	Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, University College London Department of History, Hutchins Center at Harvard
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