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halted the excavations in July 2021 and set up a commission of inquiry, the Statia
Heritage and Implementation Commission (SHRC). This commission published a report with recommendations in January 2022. In October 2022, the Statia Cultural Heritage and Implementation Committee was set up to implement those recommendations.
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The Golden Rock
African Burial Ground is of historical importance to the people of Sint Eustatius. The reputation of former plantation owners is still part of the oral history of the island. Protests by the inhabitants of Sint Eustatius against the controversial excavations led to increased awareness
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Not long after the start of the excavations in 2021, protests arose from the inhabitants of Sint
Eustatius. Several groups called attention to the way the excavations had been carried out and the lack of involvement of the local population, mostly of African descent. The government of Sint Eustatius
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November 2022. In response to the controversial excavations, residents of the island have started research into their own slavery past, including making an inventory from historical archive sources of the inhabitants of African descent from the Golden Rock plantation just before the abolition of
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Africans to the British, French, and Spanish islands of the eastern Caribbean. There was no large plantation economy, but in the eighteenth century there
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centrally located in between two elevated areas, Signal Hill and Little
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in 1981, and between 1984-1989 by A.H. Versteeg, K. Schinkel and others. In June 2021, the news that an international team of archaeologists had begun excavations at possibly one of the largest slave burial sites in the
Caribbean spread around the world.
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Committee applied for the label āRoutes of Enslaved Peoplesā for the Golden Rock African Burial Ground as well as the
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Topographic map of Sint
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in the āCultuurvlakteā. The burial ground was part of the former Golden Rock plantation on the island.
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