Remains of Enslaved People Found at Site of 18th-Century Caribbean Plantation
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Nora McGreevy (Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021) writes that archaeologists conducting excavations on the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius have discovered 48 skeletons to date. By some estimates, European merchants transported more than four million enslaved Africans to the Caribbean islands between the 16th and…
Source: repeatingislands.com