UK slave register published online

(CNN)-LONDON, England (CNN) -- A genealogy Web site has taken a bold step in exposing the details of the British slave trade by publishing a list of Barbados slaves.

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Ancestry.co.uk is a site that allows users to research their family history. This new list will allow descendants of slaves taken to Barbados to trace their ancestors back to their enslavement.

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The list, known as the Barbados Slave Register for 1834, has almost 100,000 names of slaves and their owners who worked in the former British colonial dependency.

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Wow thats very strange, a little too little too late! I wonder if people will actually trace their roots this way. Ding Dong, hello I am your long lost relative from Barbados.