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Art students join in commemoration of one-year milestone of slave history project Spread the love The Heritage Department of the National Parks Authority (NPA) is once again bringing attention to the 8th of March Project, an educational and genealogical research initiative that has been uncovering important elements of Antigua’s slave history. According to an NPA release, the ongoing project has also been creating ancestral connections with modern communities in Antigua. The project was inspired by a tragic event on March 8 1744 when a horrific explosion took the lives of enslaved Africans in the Antigua Naval Dockyard. The discovery of their names prompted a search by the Heritage Department to deepen its research for more names. The story of these men was discovered within archival records that listed them as property that their owners used to require compensation after the explosion. ....