Tag: Colonialism

Bite Me!- A Florida Humanities Moment

People frequently talk about being haunted. Usually by spirits, both by the friendly Casper types and the decidedly less friendly Poltergeist types. Sometimes people are haunted by bad…

Scottish Highlands

I’ve always loved to travel, and one of my favorite parts is getting to have a connection to the place that in our classrooms we refer to in…

An Extraordinary Emblematic Flag

I visited Barbados on a teacher professional development trip in 2018. My assigned research topic for the trip was Bussa’s 1816 slave rebellion. Within three days in April…

Transformation of an Island

My source of inspiration came from a lecture on paintings and images of slave society presented at the Barbados National Museum. The painting by Issac Sailmaker entitled “Island…