This is an important question of archival access, given the valuable geological data contained, and a mining company wants exclusive access to it.
No mention made in the article about the atrocities committed by the Belgians in Africa, nor of how these are reflected in the records.
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John Levin
Well I think I've just definitively dated the arrival of the very first enslaved people from Africa to an English colony in the Caribbean - the exact day which launched a slave plantation system that would see 3.5m people trafficked in its wake. And it seems that 400 year anniversary is upon us.
