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  Call for Contributors: A Guide to Slave Route Sites of Memory in the Caribbean   In 1994 UNESCO launched the Slave Route Project focusing on the transatlantic, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean slave trades. Its purpose was to break the silence surrounding the slave trade and to make universally known its causes, implications and modalities, by means of scientific and multidisciplinary research about the realities and brutalities of the African slave trade and slavery, in which more than 11 million Africans in the trans-Atlantic slave trade alone were sold into bondage in the Americas. Moreover, it aimed to highlight the profound consequences of this enforced dialogue on the cultures of the world, in particular those of the Americas and the Caribbean. This publication is part of an effort to ensure that the slave trade and Africa’s cultural heritage more generally, assume their rightful place in the global heritage of humanity. It aims to demonstrate the oft...

The Barbados Museum and Historical Museum is hosting a commemorative tour of Panama to celebrate the centenary of the Opening of the Panama Canal from August 12-19, 2014. Over 20,000 Barbadians migrated to the Panama Canal Zone to help build one of the 20th century's biggest engineering feats! Register and book now! Call the Barbados Museum and Historical Society for more information: (246) 427-0201.