Search the Database of People Enslaved on Aruba 1840-1863

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• Enslaved people were only registered with a first name. They received a last name when the were freed. This happened when slavery was abolished on Aruba and in the other Dutch colonies on July 1st, 1863 (emancipation), or in the case of manumission, before this date. When searching by last name you will only see results for emancipation or manumission "events".
• In this new version of the database (April 2024) it is now possible to click on a person and see additional information derived from the slavery registers, like family members, and all the person's "life events".
• Please take into account that in historical records the name was sometimes spelled differently.
• It is also possible to search for plantation names (for example Mon Plaisir, Santa Martha, Balashi, or Daimari), names of other islands, countries or colonies (Curaçao, Bonaire, St. Eustatius, Suriname, Venezuela, Puerto Rico); for professions/trades (for example farm worker, laundress, servant) and for "event types" (birth, death, sale, auction, import, export, manumission, emancipation) and on many more terms and named entities.

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