This guide to archives about slavery is not intended to be exhaustive. It also includes archival collections held by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. The guide complements the archives catalogue, which includes a subject search facility.
- The Akers family estates in St. Kitts and St. Vincent: business papers 1766-1893, 1913-15
- Barbados and Leeward Islands financial papers especially auditing accounts for the farm (the system of collecting and retaining taxes in a district) 1669-1682
- Barbados plantation legal papers, 1741-1773
- Castle Wemyss Estate in Jamaica: deeds, legal, administrative, financial papers 1802-1845, c1990
- Conduct record of John Warrow, 1838
- International Commission of Enquiry to Liberia includes minutes, correspondence, verbatim records of testimonies, c1930
- Jamaica: papers relating to politics, genealogy and slavery, refs: MS878 and MS691, c1722-1868
- John Lunan letter, ‘he flatters himself … may assist Sir Home in obtaining a knowledge of our Slave Code’ in Jamaica, 1819 October 15
- Moges, Alphonse Louis Théodore: Notes relatives à la station de la cote d’Afrique. Gorée. July 1820 . Slave trade in Senegal and how to suppress it
- Newton family of Barbados, correspondence, 1680-1920
- P K Seaman letter regarding capture of slavers. Includes 4 sketches of vessels captured, 1851 June 1
- Richard Lawson letter concerning arrival of his schooner in Virgin Islands with cargo of slaves, 1800 May 21
- Sandbach, Tinné and Co., Liverpool, business papers regarding holdings in Guyana refs: MS677 and ICS70, 1807-1909
- Slave pass, 1845 March 23
- Taylor family papers, plantation owners in Jamaica, 1760-1835 [predominantly 1770-1819]
- United States: Campaign in Britain against slavery in the USA, c1850-c1852
- West India Committee: Acquired Papers and Official Archives, 1750-1999
- William Hewitt papers cover Grenada, the Grenadines, St Vincent, Dominica and Tobago, primarily Dominica, 1759-1790