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Detail of a coloured hand-drawn map showing Rupert's Bay on the left and the narrow Rupert's Valley stretching out to the right, with roads, plots, and buildings marked in. In the bottom right-hand corner there is an unbuilt-on area labelled as African Grave Yard A.

International Research into the Origins of the Liberated Africans

Groundbreaking international research into the regional origins of the Liberated Africans of St Helena.

14 hours ago2 min read

View of the narrow end of a long single-storey grey stone building, with a light grey corrogated roof. A narrow deepset doorway features a black and white image of an African person's face with a wreath of real flowers around it. The building is surrounded by lush vegetation, some of which is growing up the walls, and broken-down fence with barbed wire. In the left background is a steep hill.

Funding secured for Memorial to the Liberated Africans

Funding secured for the creation of a permanent slavery memorial and interpretation centre in St Helena dedicated to the 8,000 enslaved Africans who died and were buried on the island following their release from slaving ships by the Royal Navy in the mid-nineteenth century.

Apr 21 min read