Back in the early 1960s, when the Public Record Office (now part of the National Archives) was in Chancery Lane, a friend took me see the records of compensation paid to slave owners when slavery was abolished in 1833. And grim reading it was.
Those records have now, in part, been placed on a publicly available database, though the interest seems mainly in tracing the details of all the slave owners (of whom there were many more, more widely spread, geographically & through the classes, than you might expect), rather than the individual slaves - who were itemised in the manifests I saw.
Even a search for owners names helps to show how many surnames still common use in the former British West Indies were bequeathed by these owners (not necessarily through paternity)
Link
Legacies of British Slave ownership database – UCL
