A museum dedicated to the history of the slave trade is being prepared in the Barbados Islands

In the islands Barbados A new important cultural heritage monument dedicated to the history of the transatlantic slave trade will be erected, the Prime Minister announced. An Amor Motley a few days after the formal severance of relations with the British monarchy.

THE British architect originally from Ghana, David Ajay was chosen to design the heritage site in which it will be built Museum which will host the largest collection outside United Kingdom archives of the slave trade, an international research center and a monument next to a burial site, where the remains of 570 slaves of men, women and children from West Africa.

The islands Barbados they honor history and preserve the past as we redefine our world and continue to contribute to world humanity. It is a moral imperative, but equally an economic necessity, the prime minister said An Amor Motley, according to a newspaper article The Independent.

On November 30, 2022, the first anniversary of their proclamation will be celebrated Barbados in a parliamentary democracy presided over.

The monument complex will be located outside the capital Bridgetown, where researchers discovered the huge tomb using technology LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), based on laser pulsed emission during the 1970s.

Once the plans are completed it will be the first memorial site for the victims of the slave trade in Caribbean. Research institute and new headquarters Files of Barbados, a 400-year-old repository of material related to the transatlantic slave trade in the occupied territories West Indies. The archive contains millions of documents — including ship registers, records, and slave sales records.

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