Were you ancestors slave owners?

[Streetwalker]

Probably , there is one line on my family tree that ventures into land ownership in North Yorkshire .
My late father always spoke of it indicating that a windfall would be coming our way as cousin  so and so didn't have any kids so and so was dead and Auntie so and so was disowned ect .

Anyway when I picked up the phone a few years back to ''Hello Heir Hunters here '' I remembered what the silly old sod had told me when the next line was '' we are looking for your late fathers second wife''

So seeing as I didn't get anything out of it Im not putting my hands up but seriously we probably have all had ancestors both slave owner and slave alike .

[patman post]

Any Moslems in there ?

Unlikely, as the database concerns British slave-ownership. Added to which most of the Islamic world would have got its cotton and sugar from North Africa and Asia.
But a good attempt at "Please Miss, he's doing it too"...

[papasmurf]

Any Moslems in there ?

You would have to check that for yourself I am not trawling through 46000 records.
I was only interested in my ancestors.

[johnofgwent]

Any Moslems in there ?

Since the Prophet Mohammed was ....

[papasmurf]

Access to the database of 46000 slave owners who got compensation under the Slave Owners Compensation Act 1837.
(I can't find anyone related to me on it.)

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/details