A greater proportion of evidence on the enslavement and movement of enslaved persons can be found in The National Archives (in London) in the records of the African trading companies, Customs Outport, Board of Trade and the Admiralty. The NRS holds one letter describing a voyage on a slave trader from Bleney Harper (in Barbados) to William Gordon & Company, Glasgow, May 1731 ( NRS reference CS228/A/3/19).
Log books of ship voyages normally remain the property of ship owners and very few have found their way to Scottish archives.
There is little evidence in the NRS of the enslavement and movement of the enslaved to African ports prior to shipping. Enslavement in Africa and slave trade voyages We are committed to amending this large-scale legacy in our catalogue continuously over time so it should be possible in the future to find all relevant material without the use of these terms as search words. Please note this guide contains language which, although considered acceptable and widely used in the past, we now consider offensive. The following sections deal with aspects of the slave trade and suggest relevant sources of information. Other aspects of the trade are better researched elsewhere, for example in The National Archives, London, or in other archives and libraries. It is possible to carry out research on some of these subjects in the NRS, which holds the records of Scottish courts and churches, and some estate papers relating to plantations owned by enslavers. Research is also carried out in Scottish archives into other forms and aspects of slavery, for example the concepts of free and unfree status of women and serfs in medieval Scotland transportation to the colonies of rebels during the religious wars and of criminals bonded labour in the early modern period and the enslavement of Scots by North African corsairs in the seventeenth century. Some researchers are interested in information about enslaved individuals or former enslaved people, while others are interested in conditions or events on particular plantations, slave voyages, or the abolition movement. It also mentions some other Scottish archives relating to Scotland's involvement in the trade and its abolition. This guide deals primarily with aspects of the transatlantic slave trade and records in the National Records of Scotland (NRS).
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