by ship to Barbados and sold to colonial enslavers on the island and throughout the Americas. Cave Hill is also a key educational partner of the Barbados Heritage District that will include a memorial park and a major global research institute to house the Barbados National Archives within a museum located in Newton Plantation, Christ Church. The digitisation of the Barbados National Archives is one of the main projects of the Barbados Heritage District . The Barbados Heritage District , designed by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye , is being developed under the direction of Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley under the auspices of the Reclaiming Our Atlantic Destiny (ROAD) Project , a multifaceted initiative designed to: transform the identity and economy of Barbados, provide unparalleled access to the history of the island nation, create job growth, and catapult research and technological innovation. “The inclusion of The University of the West Indies as the first non-US consortium member of SlaveVoyages marks an important next step in the advancement of the ROAD Project and of the Barbados
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T his unification makes Cave Hill the first non-United States consortium member of SlaveVoyages , the leading online resource for the study of the trade in enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. The database has a critical role in widening access to archival materials, including ship registers, sales ledgers, and recorded names of freed African people. Already an institution housing a major architectural feature that pays homage to the island’s African ancestry, Cave Hill will work with SlaveVoyages to advance research and study of the Barbados National Archives . These archives comprise tens of millions of documents tracing the gut-wrenching stories of individuals captured in Africa, brought
As the reparatory justice movement gains global momentum, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus has teamed up with leading educational agencies, creating a premier consortium that contributes to the growing body of research into the Atlantic Slave Trade. The amalgamation also includes Emory University , Harvard University , Rice University , University of California , the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles Vice-Chancellor The University of the West Indies
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