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Part of this exhibition is based on research conducted by Simon Buck, Research Fellow (2022-24) at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. It emerges from the work of the Decolonised Transformations Project in confronting the University’s legacies of slavery, colonialism and the development of racial thought. Panels on the Gunadule people were co-produced with Olowaili Green Santacruz, Amelicia Santacruz Álvarez and David Sierra Márquez.

Special thanks to Olowaili Green Santacruz, Amelicia Santacruz Álvarez, David Sierra Márquez, Paola Vargas Arana, Kathleen S. Murphy, Zander Johnston, Emma Fraser, Steve Carter, Diana Paton, Nicola Frith, Thomas Ahnert, Esther Mijers, NatWest Group Archives, Arcadia, the Archivo Histórico de Antioquia, the British Library, University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections and the volunteers who took part in the community consultation for this exhibition

Olowaili Green Santacruz is a Gunadule, communicator, producer and filmmaker, co-founder of Sentarte Film Production Company and co-director of Daupará Festival in Colombia that showcases Indigenous film and video. David Sierras Márquez is an historian, filmmaker film programmer, and member of Cinemaattic, which showcases Latin American and Iberian cinema in Scotland. Olowaili and David are currently co-directing a feature film, SUGGUNYA, about the history of the Scottish attempt of colonise Darien, but from a Gunadule perspective, where Gunadule historians and wise men and women from the community will share this history. Amelicia Santacruz Álvarez is a Gunadule leader, Professor at the University of Antioquia, and member of Duleome Mola, a collective of Mola women weavers. Amelicia Santacruz Álvarez is co-curator of Capas de Sabiduría (Layers of Wisdom), a mola exhibition at the Banco de la Republica de Colombia.

Further reading:

Armitage, David. ‘The Scottish Vision of Empire: Intellectual Origins of the Darien Venture’. In A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the British Union of 1707, edited by John Robertson, 97–118. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Bennett, Gina G.. ‘Imperial Women of Darien: Scottish Migration and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1650-1740’. PhD dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington, 2020.

Claridge, Claudia. ‘The Darién Scheme: Failure and Its Treatment in the Press’, in Fiasko – Scheitern in Der Frühen Neuzeit: Beitraege Zur Kulturgeschichte Des Misserfolgs, edited by Claudia Claridge and Stefan Brakensiek, 59–84. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag, 2015.

Finlayson, C. P. ‘Edinburgh University and the Darien Scheme’. The Scottish Historical Review 34, no. 118 (1955): 97–102.

Gallup-Díaz, Ignacio. The Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in Darién, 1640-1750. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Green Stocel, Abadio (Manibinigdiginya). ‘Lengua y escritura gunadule’, 2016, Conferencias sobre la cultura gunadule Exposición Molas (conference on Gunadule culture and the Capas de Sabiduría exhibition), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjhKQUBujhI

Jones, W. Douglas. ‘“The Bold Adventurers”: A Quantitative Analysis of the Darien Subscription List (1696)’. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 21, no. 1 (1 May 2001): 22–42.

Molas: Capas de Sabiduría (Layers of Wisdom), exhibition on molas, https://www.banrepcultural.org/exposiciones/molas-capas-de-sabiduria/conferencias;

Moore, Peter N. ‘An Enslaver’s Guide to Slavery Reform: William Dunlop’s 1690 Proposals to Christianize Slaves in the British Atlantic’. Church History 91, no. 2 (2022): 264–85.

Mullen, Stephen. ‘Centring Transatlantic Slavery in Scottish Historiography’. History Compass 20, no. 1 (2022): 1-14.

Murphy, Kathleen S.. Captivity's Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Orr, Julie. Scotland, Darien and the Atlantic World, 1698-1700. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Santacruz Álvarez, Amelicia. ‘La mujer en la cultura gunadule’ (Women in Gunadule culture), 2016, Conferencias sobre la cultura gunadule Exposición Molas (conference on Gunadule culture and the Capas de Sabiduría exhibition), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66GU-3nItY.

Wagua, Aiban. Así lo vi, así me lo contaron. Datos de la Revolución Guna. Versión del sagladummad Inakeliginya y de gunas que vivieron la Revolución de 1925. Gunayala, 2007.

Watt, Douglas. The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations. Edinburgh: Luath Press Ltd, 2007.