Alumnus Christopher Waters Quoted in BBC Article on Tracing Slave Names and Origins

Alumnus Christopher Waters Quoted in BBC Article on Tracing Slave Names and Origins

June 29, 2022

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Christopher Waters '18 Ph.D. (Anth) hopes to help formally identify enslaved people who were erased from history. His project is tracing slave names and origins and was cited in the BBC News article, "'There's power in names': Antigua unearths lost ancestors." He is the current director of heritage resources at National Parks Authority of Antigua and Barbuda.

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