Jamaican institutions and scholars will receive £450,000 ($91 million) under a wider £1 million ($203 million) grant from the UK-based Lloyd’s Register Foundation to advance research into the history of transatlantic slavery.

The funding, announced on Wednesday at the British High Commission in Kingston, forms part of the PASSAGE International Research Mobility Programme.

PASSAGE, which stands for the Partnership for Atlantic Slavery Scholarship, Archiving and Global Exchange, supports collaboration between archivists and researchers in the Caribbean, West Africa and the United Kingdom. It aims to widen access to records of enslavement, strengthen archival partnerships and deepen local interpretation of histories that continue to shape the Caribbean and beyond.