From Massa to the Metaverse is an ongoing series initially conceptualised by our producer Nadine Jack and developed by our Every Bit Digital team, to not just tell the stories of our ancestors, but also uplift the echoes of those unheard voices while amplifying the promising potential of our Bajan youth.
From Massa to the Metaverse is an ongoing series initially conceptualised by our producer Nadine Jack and developed by our Every Bit Digital team, to not just tell the stories of our ancestors, but also uplift the echoes of those unheard voices while amplifying the promising potential of our Bajan youth.
Our goal here is to utilise the foundations that our fore parents built throughout centuries of slavery and oppression, to now INFORM, INSPIRE and ELEVATE our future generations.
We don’t dwell in our past but are focused instead on proactively highlighting and cultivating our current accomplishments and future plans for FinTech, STEM and Creativity.
Our intent for this series is that it becomes a catalyst for future generations to dismantle outdated systems and defeatist mentalities, through their positive disruption and ever-evolving innovation.
We cannot know where we are going until we honour how far we have come, and our dream for the future of this nation is that the lessons learned from our complex past, can now become the blueprint for our island’s limitless future.
Join us on this journey as we take Barbados ‘From Massa to the Metaverse’.
Located in Barbados’ UNESCO World Heritage Property of Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, the galleries of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society are housed in 19th-century military prison buildings and reveal the island’s rich natural, social and military history.
The Newton Slave Burial Ground is the largest and earliest slave burial ground discovered in Barbados. Here lie the remains of nearly six hundred enslaved men, women and children who toiled and suffered through brutal plantation slavery.
The Cotton Tower Signal Station is located just off the main road in Horse Hill in the parish of St. Joseph and is one of the six (6) signal stations erected across Barbados after the 1816 Slave Rebellion. This 19th century signal station offers a magnificent view of the rugged Scotland District of Barbados.
Located in the central parish of St. Thomas, the Rock Hall Freedom Village is the site of the first freehold village created by former slaves in 1841, just 3 years after full Emancipation from slavery.
