Archaeology
The following case studies are examples of the work that National Museums Liverpool's field archaeology team have been involved in both in the local area and further afield.
We are currently involved in a partnership with the University of Southampton and the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery which has been successful in obtaining a grant from NEH/JISC for the St Kitts-Nevis Digital Archaeology Initiative. This is an innovative collaborative project designed to further scholarship on slavery.
The Initiative will develop an integrated digital archive of diverse archaeological and historical data related to the experiences of the enslaved men and women who labored on 17th, 18th and 19th century sugar plantations in the Caribbean.
An international team of scholars from The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia, the University of Southampton’s Nevis Heritage Project and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool will digitise and deliver on the web information from two 18th-century plantations and their slave villages, one located on Nevis and the other on St Kitts. The result will be a first-of-its-kind digital collection of fully searchable archaeological and historical data from multiple slave village sites in the Caribbean.
The St Kitts-Nevis Digital Archaeology Initiative is funded under the JISC/NEH transatlantic digitisation collaborative grants programme, part of the JISC digitisation programme.