- Background & the TCI
- Brief History of Emancipation
- Depopulation of the Islands
- Bermudans & the Salt Industry
- The Loyalist Period
- Plantations
- Runaway Slaves
- Emancipation & Beyond
- Liberated Africans
- Slave Ships
- Mary Prince
- Sources of Slaves
- Biased Recording
- Slave Records 1822 - 1834
- Religion & Records
- Punishment
- Conclusion
- Bibliography & Related Material
Director's Notes
The conservation and study of artifacts continues. More information is revealed weekly as the museum explores the story behind the only British fort in the TCI.
Museum News
9 June 2010 - The Museum's application to the British Library's Endangered Archives Project was accepted. The project's focus will be to invenoty, preserve, and where possible, collect pre-1900 records from around the Islands. The project will get underway in September and run for six months.
Trouvadore Story Goes Live at the Smithsonian23 February 2010 - Today the History Channel video of the Trouvadore story went live on the Smithsonian's Ocean Portal website
The National Museum Comes to the Village at Grace Bay18 February 2010 - Following years of research and planning, the Turks & Caicos National Museum is about to unveil plans for a major expansion of the National Museum at the Village ataGrace Bay, Providenciales.