Barbados is putting up the Barbados Slave Route Heritage Trail & Tour , is a tourist route commemorating the country's history marked by slavery. The solgan: E mpreintes of freedom: the history of Barbados .
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| Newton Slave Burial Ground |
The driver circuit, a four-hour is punctuated with detours to sites whose history is linked to the slave trade. Among these sites there is the Gun Hill Signal Station and Sweet Vale (formerly Sweet Bottom) at St.George, the Newton Slave Burial Ground planting Newton and Bourne's Land (Christ Church) and The Cage, Bridgetown.
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| Gun Hill Signal Station |
The tourism ministry has a threefold goal with this tour: to encourage visitors to go or return to Barbados to discover this aspect of its history, further integrating the sphere of philanthropy and educate residents on the history of their island.
This new circuit will be available to cruise passengers who make a stopover in Barbados.
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