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Professor Barry Higman

Professor Barry HigmanSept 30,1943

Historian specializing in the social and economic history the Americas. During his tenure as Head of the History Department he introduced History Day, the Heritage Studies Programme and the Social History Project. He conducted the first significant archaeological excavation of a slave village in the English-speaking Caribbean at Montpelier in St. James (1972-1983).

 

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