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…

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…

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…