The African Burial Grounds on Saint Helena Island

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St Helena Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is the United Kingdom’s second largest Overseas Territory and is host to an incredible, unrecognised cultural heritage site. Between 1840 and 1872, more than 25,000 enslaved Africans were offloaded from ships to St Helena during the abolition stage of the slave trade, thereby ‘liberating’ these Africans. However, those that did not survive were not returned to their home country but were buried on the island.
These unmarked and neglected burial grounds are considered to be the most significant physical remaining trace of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on earth.

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We can insert a powerful quote here to persuade viewer to donate to the project– Annina van Neel

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The story of Bones

As the Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s troubled £285m ($360m) airport project, Annina Van Neel learned of the island’s most terrible atrocity – an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans in Rupert’s Valley. It is one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade still on earth. Haunted by this historical injustice, Annina now fights alongside renowned African American preservationist Peggy King Jorde and a group of disenfranchised islanders – many of them descendants of the formerly enslaved – for the proper memorialisation of these forgotten victims. The resistance they face exposes disturbing truths about the UK’s colonial past and present.

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