Vacant Space Slave Stone. De Shark//flickr.cc(by-nc-nd)
How can we engage with slavery from the past, how can we consider it in front of our eyes, bring the past to the present? Slavery's aftermath is all around us, if we care to look, and listen. I've been immersed in the words and studies of archaeologists, anthropologists and osteologists, learning that for instance there has been three decades of research at the Newton Plantation in Barbados. A wealth of data and information that has kept archaeologists and scholars digging and re-digging, looking for clues about ‘slave life’.
We want to gain a better understanding on 'the slave life', the academics say, so human remains or human biology is uncovered and unearthed.
