Two extensive databases of the 1821 and 1834 slave registers have been made available to the public via three institutions.
The Bermuda College, the Bermuda Museum and the National Trust all received the databases via Arlene Brock, Ombudsman for Bermuda.
The original hand-written registers were created to document financial compensation of the slave owners when slaves were emancipated.
The databases were developed in an Excel format by Dr. Virginia Bernhard of the University of St. Thomas in Houston.
They set out the names of owners, slaves and their work and ages.
Dr. Bernhard gifted the first part of these databases more than decade ago.
Ms Brock said: "I refrained from releasing them before now in order to give the archives the opportunity to do so. However, nine months after tabling my report, I cannot in good conscience hold on to these important research tools any longer."
