ADHT Newsletter August 2014

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African Diaspora Heritage Trail (ADHT) BermudaCharities House25 Point Finger RoadPaget DV04

Last picture shows some of the

group at the Globe Hotel, across

from Butterfield Bank, which no

houses a National Trust Museum

with the cellar being used to hou

slaves when they came off the slships in St. Georges Harbour.

On Monday 21st July 2014

the Chameleon Summer Day

Camp from the Government

Summer Day Programme,

participated in the ADHTs

Square to Square Tour in St.

Georges with tour guides

Grace Rawlins and Maxine

Esdaille. The Square to Square

tour takes persons from Kings

Square to Pilot Darrell Square

(home of Pilot James Darrell,

Bermudas first Black Kings

Pilot).

More than 80 personscamp

counselors and studentstook

part in the tour. The ages rang-

es from 5-10 year olds.

First picture is at Pilot DarrellSquare at the end of Silk Alley.

Pilot Darrells house is in the

background.

Next picture taken in the Slave

Graveyard at St. Peters Church.

The Department of Community

and Cultural Affairs had as its

theme for this years Emancipa-

tion ActivitiesThe Trail of

Our People. This years activi-

ties included a special celebration

at the Earl Cameron Theatre on

Sunday 27th July where six fami-

lies from Hamilton Parish

(Richardson, Seward Smith Sr.,

Furbert, Gibbons, Hill and Hodgson

families) and six from Southamp-

ton Parish (Raynor, Lee, Simons,

Burrows, Wilson and the John Ellis

Smith families) were honoured.

On Tuesday 29th July was the

launch of the Bermuda Heritage

Documentary Film Series. Four

Bermudians featured in this first

documentary and 3 of those featured

are ADHT personsADHTDirectors: Maxine Esdaille

spoke of her work with the

ADHT and Joy Wilson Tucke

who spoke of her work with t

Lodges; and ADHT Host Co

mittee member Dr. Radell Ta

ardwho spoke of his work w

Heritage Productions which

annually honours former Cup

Match players.

ADHT Square Tour with Chameleon SDC

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A D H T N E W S L E T T E R J U L Y 2 0 1 4

I N T H I S I S S U E :

ADHT Happeningsp1

The E Wordp2

On line dialogue between

David and Qunicyp4

DHT

Sites of

Memory

Whats the name of this

site?

Use the clues below to

gure out the name of

this issues featured

ADHT site.

Part of this house

is said to be built

by master stone

cuer Eneld Dill.

In the early 1800s.

Bermuda Friendly

Sociees met is this

house in the1800s.

It was used as a

school in the 1870s.

Later the rent from

the housewas used

to assist black stu-

dents studying

medicine.

Email answer to:

[email protected]

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This reading was per-

formed on 1st August

2014, on the 2nd day

of Cup Match 2014 at

Somerset CricketClub to commemo-

rate the 180th anni-

versary of that first

Emancipation Day

which took place on

1st August 1834.

The reading was per-

formed by Dr. Femi

Bada, a Director of

the ADHT Bermuda

Foundation and La-

shon Martin, a student

at CedarBridge Acad-

emy, a local senior

school, with Desmond

Rivah Smith accom-

panying with the sing-

ing of Bob Marleys

Redeemption Song..

The narrative was

written by Maxine

Esdaille, Chiar ADHT

Bermuda Foundation.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T is more than a song

The E Word

ENTRAPPED: 1500sThey came for us: from Portugal, Eng-land, Denmark and more.They took us -more than 10-millionof us.Theyrippedus from our homes in theSenegambia, the Gold Coast, theGrain Coast, the Slave Coast andthe Bight of Biafra.They crowded us on ships -worsethan cattle-to cross the Atlantic to go where? - we didn't know

And they didn't/they couldn't/theywouldn't tell us.

ENSLAVED:

They took us to France, to England, toPortugal, to Spain, to the Caribbean,to the Americas -all over the westernworld.

We used to be the Akan, theFon, the Yoruba, the Ewe, thePopo, the Mende, and moreThey didn't care that we alreadyhad an identity, a home, a family,

a life BEFORE

To them we were now justS-L-A-V-E!

They said: FORGET YOURLANGUAGE, FORGET YOURHOME, FORGET YOUR FAMI-LY, FORGET YOUR TRADI-TIONS, FORGET YOUR RELI-

GION,FORGET THE YOUYOUWERE BEFORE -your name isnow SLAVE!But WE KNEW THEY KNEWwe came with talents, with skills,with a history, with OUR STORYWe were weavers, we were farm-

ers, we were iron mongers, wewere artisans, we were shipbuild-ers, we were fishermen and more.They used our skills to buildtheirbuildings, to build theirnations, to raisetheirchildrenand more.They paid us not a penny-to

them we were just slaves, chattel,we were less than cattle, not reallyhuman.

EMANCIPATEDWe were emancipated in 1834.Emancipation was not a gift fromthem to us

We worked for it. We fought for

it. We revolted for it. We diedfor it -and more.THEY DID NOT GIVE IT TOUS -WE EARNED IT!

Dr. Bada & Lashon Martin

EDUCATED:

Since that time-

exactly 180years ago today, althoughwere starting on "the backfoot" -200 years late,-We made the long trek forward-again.We bought land, we builthomes, churches and schools:The Berkeley Institute, Sandy's

Secondary - and more.We became farmers -again,boat pilots -again, artists -again, masons, "chief cooksand bottle washers" - againWe didnt stop there, we edu-

cated ourselves in this westernworld.Then we became doctors, law-

yers, teachers, communityleaders and more -again!

Contd on page 3

teachers who in-

spired us to the jani-tors who kept our

school clean... and we

were taught to value

We learned about

gratitude and hu-mility - that so

many people had a

hand in our suc-

cess, from the

everyone's contribu-

tion and treat every-one with respect.

Michelle Obama

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International News President Obama Renames Africa Programme

The E WordEDUCATED:Since that time -exactly 180 yearsago today, although were start-

ing on "the back foot" -200 years

late,-We made the long trek forward -

again.

We bought land, we built homes,

churches and schools: The Berke-

ley Institute, Sandy's Secondary -

and more.

We became farmers -again, boatpilots -again, artists -again, ma-

sons, "chief cooks and bottle wash-

ers" - againWe didnt stop there, we educated

ourselves in this western world.Then we became doctors, lawyers,

teachers, community leaders and

more-again!

Rivah Smith

EMPOWERED:-2014We are here now -enslaved

no more, educated for em-

powerment!We are now empowered to

make our own way, to lead and more

We must remember to hon-

our the great sacrifice of

those who came beforeThey didn't ask to come

here, they didn't choose to

be enslaved .

But in spite of coming with

nothing, they made sure

that we who followed havesomething.What will we do with this

power we have now?

IT'S ALL UP TO US!!

launched in 2010 to support anew generation of leadershipthere. The fellowship is beingrenamed as a tribute to Man-dela, who died last December

at age 95.Obama announced the fellow-ship during a stop in SouthAfrica last summer. It connectsyoung African leaders to lead-ership training opportunities attop U.S. universities.In remarks at Mondays event,

Obama also was announcingnew public-private partner-

ships to create more programsfor young African leaders,including four regional leader-ship centers across Africa,online classes and other re-sources, the White House said.

A program designed to foster anew generation of young Afri-can leaders will be renamedafter former South AfricanPresident Nelson Mandela.

PresidentBarack Obama,who has said he was one of theuntold millions of peoplearound the world who wereinspired by Mandelas life, isset to announce the namechange at a town hall-styleevent Monday in Washington

with several hundred youngleaders from across sub-

Saharan Africa.

The youngsters are participat-ing in the inaugural Washing-

ton Fellowship for YoungAfrican Leaders, part of thebroader Young African Lead-ers Initiativethat Obama

Mandela spent 27 years in jailunder apartheid, South Africasformer system of white minori-ty rule, before eventually lead-ing his country through a diffi-

cult transition to democracy. In1994, he became the first dem-ocratically elected leader of apost-apartheid South Africa.This weeks events with thenext generation of young Afri-can leaders are a lead-in to theinaugural U.S.-Africa Leaders

Summit, being held Aug. 4-6in Washington. About 50 Afri-can leaders are expected toattend what the White Housesays will be the largest gather-ing any U.S. president has heldwith African heads of state andgovernment.

from goodblacknews.com

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* Y a K i j a r i d a S w a h i l i p h r a s e m e a n i n g N e w s l e t t e r

ONLINEDIALOGEBETWEEN2 YOUNG, GIFTEDANDBLACK BERMUDIAN MEN

I sent an article to a number of young men from Bermuda who are sharing their gifts in Bermuda and around the world. I wanted to see what the next generationthought about the topic as it seems to resonate with some of the issues that are being faced in Bermuda and indeed worldwide today. Two of the young menresponded and began a conversation with each other about the topic below. One young man, Quincy Burgess, is in Africa and is a PhD Candidate at the WangariMaathai Institute within the Department of Environmental Management and Governance at the University of Nairobi , Nairobi Kenya. The other young man, Dr.David Chapman, is in the United Kingdom having just completed his PhD, at Royal Holloway University of London.

It is interesting in that they work in similar fields: Quincy is the Bee man sowing seeds of sustainability in Kenya (Bda Sun/03/2012) and David recentlyearned his PhD through the Royal Holloway University of London following research on renewable energy and its role in sustainable development in smallisland states. (Bernews 22/04/2014)

The focus of the article, sent on 9thJuly 2014, was:

Indisputable!When the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

The conversation that ensued between the 2 young men makes for interesting reading! Here is their conversation:

Dr. David Chapman (9/7/2014): I agree fully! His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I writes: "Rich and poor have always existed and always will.

Why? Because there are those that work and those that don't, those that wish to earn their living and those that prefer to do nothing. Those that

work, that want to work, are not poor. For it is true that Our Lord the Creator sends us into the world as equals, but it is also true that when one is

born one is neither rich nor poor. One is naked. t is later on that one becomes rich or poor, according to one's desserts."

Mr. Quincy Burgess (9/7/2014):Thanks for the article. My thoughts are in short that socialism is a fluid entity and that there is no pure form of

either governmental system. In that, there is a possibility that the professor's use of socialism is not one that would allow each member of the group

to thrive. I think if he separated the class using a traditionally capitalistic model you may see what we see today - the disparity. Think we would agree

that we have to all first agree on what each member of the community wants. Using the example, each person wants something different so we

should strive to create a society where each one is able to reach for their individual goal uninhibited. And I think this is true of society. If the so called

high flyers want to be in high level positions, let them attain and provide a s tructure for them to. If the ones who prefer to be led and do less want, let them have

the opportunity to be aware of what they want to strive toward i.e. basic necessities. I think this is the travesty in society, that many people feel marginalized and

not have basic needs. In Bermuda, we have something different to Kenya in that basic needs are considered as new shoes and the best clothes. I have to run, but I

will continue.

Mr. Quincy Burgess (10/7/2014):To finish, I think it is our responsibility to first make fa ir and just societies, places where people can thrive and

reach goals if they choose to. To also live out a sense of purpose and dignity. Second I think it is our responsibility to take those who do not work

and create their own poverty and allow them to see their lives. What they choose from that point on is their choice. I do not think that, and I am

sure most if not all will agree that, we should leave people suffering, or living with curable diseases or fixable situations in that state if it is within our

power to help. Help meaning provide a framework for each individual's success equally, which is a monumental challenge at a country level.

Thankfully, Bermuda is small and the GDP is high. Part of gaining control and leveling the playing field is basic necessities (housing, food, medicine and schooling).Housing and food are the major economic hurdles for younger Bermudians, as schooling up to high school is free as opposed to Kenya and many other countries

in the continent. Housing is complex again dealing with assess rich and cash poor second generation issues.

Let me tackle food. One of the major leveling methods is people being able to have a basic meal. This is somewhere that is a major point, as in Nairobi even ifyou cannot find work, most people will have family access to land on which they can survive, or be able to eat a meal of rice and beans for $1. I think Bermudaneeds to really consider getting a hold of food prices, either starting to grow in a neighboring country to stabilize prices or seriously take idle land, grow food andstart to stock it. Hope this helps,

Dr. David Chapman (10/7/2014): Agreed with all that you have said Quincy...In reference to the fair and equitable society you speak to, Him Impe-

rial Majesty in the same speech on work I quoted earlier says (see bold underlined comments): "We have said that whoever doesn't work because he

doesn't want to is poor. We have said that wealth has to be gained through hard work. We have said those who don't work starv e. And now We

add to hat the capacity to earn depends on the individual: Each individual is responsible for his misfortunes, his fate . It is wrong to

expect help to fall from above, as a gift: Wealth has to be deserved. Work is one of the commandments of Our Lord the Creator!

If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would

bless the results for us."

Mr. Quincy Burgess (16/7/2014): Yes agreed also, and sorry for the delay. Who can argue with the Emperor? I wanted to mention that there are anumber of people who despite their best efforts and hardest work feel that every day is a battle against the reality that the y wake up every day and goto work, and do not move forward month to month and year to year, remaining in the same place. This has lead to a sense of disillusionment of notbeing able to get ahead. This is my main point in my art icle discussing colonialism, in that the greatest disparity is colonialism has afforded colonizersand their supporters generations of advancement financially or opportunities. This is why I say, that the Almighty will reward those of us who work

hard, but we also need to work to make an environment where every person has the chance to advance in li fe at their goals and not feel as though they will gonowhere despite their best efforts. Granted, I have worked with Government and there are copious ideas of what moving forward looks like, but that is another

issue in reality.

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ADHT Newsletter August 2014