…within the island. This includes sharks and remora fish, quato and saccawinkee monkeys, and a number of birds including the toucan, flycatcher, and the Amazon and Blue & Yellow macaws….
Translation and Transcription: Le MΓ©moire du juge Courtin
…et d’avoir fait mourir leurs camarades et les bestieaux. Quelques-uns ont été condamnés. are a great number of Negroes, charged with having composed and distributed poison, and having killed their…
Makandal and West African Knowledge
…Nougaret. Voyages Intéressans Dans Différentes Colonies Françaises, Espagnoles, Anglaises, &c: Contenant Des Observations Importantes Relatives à Ces Contrées; & Un Mémoire Sur Lesmaladies Les plus Communes à Saint-Domingue, Leurs Remèdes,…
Images from the Archive: Fauna
…detailed depictions of a number of different species that occupied different habitats within the island. This includes sharks and remora fish, quato and saccawinkee monkeys, and a number of birds…
How did natural history affect colonization?
…accuracy of scientific knowledge; however, even if the engravings featured a more literal likeness to the objects at hand, their accuracy is debatable—they were not drawn in the service of…
Exhibit Bibliography
…Ces Contrées; & Un Mémoire Sur Lesmaladies Les plus Communes à Saint-Domingue, Leurs Remèdes, & Le Moyen de s’en Préserver Moralement & Phisiquement: Avec Des Anecdotes Singulières, Qui n’avaient Jamais…
Resources for Teachers
…had on the Caribbean. It can easily be adapted to work in a number of classrooms, including for community-based learning groups. Assignments Click the images to access Google Files of…
Key Text: Relation dβune Conspiration tramee par les negres
…Confesseur, aux negres qu’on suplicie, de révéler leur fauteurs & complices” (1758) – John Carter Brown Library This book was probably produced between 1764 and 1804 at a press in…
Makandal Exhibit: Introduction
…identified or characterized as any number of things: a poisoner, a healer or physician, a maroon, and a Vodou priest; this exhibit traces his transformation over time and geography from…
Decolonizing the Archive
…growing number of similarly embedded slave narratives, extracted from texts written by European colonial authors, which we have remixed to form a new digital anthology of narratives that speak to…
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