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Last updated: 08 March, 2007 - Published 14:08 GMT
 
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300 years of Caribbean history
 

Photo courtesy National Archives

This was a housing area in Hyndman's village, Antigua taken in 1914. The picture is from a new National Archives exhibition

Picture: courtesy National Archives

A copy of an apprenticeship order issued in Trinidad in 1838

A female prisoner in Barbados. Courtesy: National Archives

This 1901 picture captures the lives of those imprisoned in colonial times

An application for African slaves (courtesy: National Archives)

The paperwork was kept for many transactions in the West Indies. This document from Grenada is from 1862. The full exhibition is available at the British National Archives


 
 
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