Escaped slaves on St. Croix hid their settlements so well they still haven’t been found – archaeologists using new mapping technology are on the hunt

Escaped slaves on St. Croix hid their settlements so well, they still haven’t been found – archaeologists using new mapping technology are on the hunt

The red square on this 1767 map of St. Croix marks where Danes believed the Maroon settlement was. Paul Kuffner/Royal Danish Library – By Justin Dunnavant, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles Published: 2025 Aug 27 – “For a long …