The research of Felicia Fricke, a PhD student in the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies, has been discussed in The Daily Herald, the leading newspaper for St Marteen and the Northeast Caribbean.

Felicia’s PhD focuses on slave lifeways on Curaçao, St Maarten and St Eustatius (1640 – 1863) through thematic analyses of human remains, material culture and oral history. In her second year, Felicia, who has been the recipient of the Centre for Heritage scholarship, is currently undertaking her data collection in the Dutch Caribbean.

Felicia spent five weeks in St Eustatius researching two slave villages, analysing human remains and collecting numerous oral histories and she will do the same on the islands of St Maarten and Curaçao. She also visited Saba to investigate the discovery of a mother and foetus skeleton from the 1700s.

The full article can be seen at: www.thedailyherald.sx/supplements/weekender/56685-understanding-the-lives-of-the-enslaved