The Newton Slave Burial Ground is the earliest and largest slave burial ground in Barbados. The site represents the only excavated communal slave burial ground within a plantation in the western hemisphere.

The burial ground and final resting place of over 500 enslaved Africans has no memorial, no headstone, and is difficult to find. There is no signage save for the weather worn plaque installed by the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, it is surrounded by fields of sugar cane, those same fields where the slaves toiled and died.

Cemeteries should be a place of peace and beauty, where family can spend time reflecting and celebrating the lives of their loved ones. The land at Newton plantation is unconsecrated ground and whilst the slave owners were given an opulent burial in one of the many beautiful churches on the island, with impressive monuments and headstones, the African slave who created the wealth and prosperity not only in Barbados but across the western hemisphere buried in unmarked graves.

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