Andreana Cunningham on her experience this summer:

This summer, I traveled to the remote island of St. Helena to conduct research at Rupert’s Valley Burial Ground. This is the site of the ‘Liberated Africans,’ a group of formerly enslaved Africans who were nominally freed in the mid-1800s shortly prior to their deaths. While on the island, I worked closely with St. Helena organizations to 3D scan skeletal remains and do community engagement activities. As a culmination of the years-long effort on the island to commemorate the site, the ‘Liberated Africans’ will be reburied in late August 2022.”