Wallibou/Lashum project

The Wallibou/Lashum project

A research project led by Dr Peggy Brunache.

This University of Glasgow project, in collaboration with University of West Indies and the St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Trust (SVGNT), uses multi-prong approach to study the interconnected experiences of Wallibou/Lashum residents of the distant and recent past while navigating environmental and ecological struggles in St Vincent island’s North Leeward region. Archaeology and archival research will help us to understand the history of the Wallibou sugar estate since its establishment after the First Black Carib War in 1773, its enslaved and free labourers, neighbouring Garifuna community, as well as the British proprietors, slavers, and managerial staff until the estate was destroyed by La Soufriere’s eruption in 1902. Oral history, visual ethnography, and community mapping are methods we’ll use to help recover and highlight what life was like when people moved back to the area later in the 20th century and renamed it “Lashum”.