National Debt Office: Abolition of Slavery Act 1833, Registers of Compensation Paid to Slave Owners

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Reference code(s): NDO 4

Title: National Debt Office: Abolition of Slavery Act 1833, Registers of Compensation Paid to Slave Owners

Date(s): 1835 - 1842

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 32 volume(s)

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Administrative/Biographical history: The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 abolished slavery in the British dominions, and a sum of £20 million was granted by Parliament to compensate the slave proprietors. The actual payment of the compensation claims awarded by the Slave Compensation Commissioners was made by the national debt commissioners under Treasury warrant.

Archival history: The earliest records of the National Debt Office to be acquired appear to be those relating to slave compensation which had been held by the Slave Compensation Commission and were transferred to the Rolls House in 1846.

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Scope and content: These records comprise payment books and other records concerning slave compensation following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. The payment books show the sum awarded and the date of the Treasury warrant, and contain the signatures of the claimants' representatives; also miscellaneous accounts, certificates of deaths and marriages, correspondence etc.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: January 2002

Interest: Caribbean

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Slavery

Slavery Abolition Act 1833

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