A tourist guide to the African Diaspora Trail

By: Marc Piney, Dylan Smith, Reilly Durfy, Matthew Davidson, Ethan Mora

A Tourist Guide To The.....

African Diaspora Trail Bermuda

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Here's your guide to the African Diaspora Trail....

Table Of Contents!

4 .......... Introduction

16 .......... Restaurants near sites

5-6 .......... Maps

17 .......... The End

7 .......... St. Peter's Church

8 .......... Barr's Bay Park

9 .......... Pilot Darrell's Square

10 .......... Tucker's House (Joseph Rainey Exhibit)

11 .......... Sally Bassett Statue

12 .......... Jeffrey's Cave

13-15 .......... Games & Quizes

What is the Diaspora Trail?

The African diaspora is a series of historic sites were famous black slaves and people have either found refuge, were executed or had a statue built of them. The way you can tell these sites from regular monuments is because of the plaque next to it. or an emblem on the map (shown on cover).

Some of the sites can be houses that slaves have built or bought like Pilots Darell house or Tuckers house and Mitchel house. They could also be a statue like the 'We Arrive" statue and the Sarah (Sally) Bassett statue. They can also be places were historical events have happened like at Mitchell House or St' Peters Church were a black man was executed for preaching to people of color and white people.

Where is the African diaspora trail?

St. Peter's church, Barrs bay park, Pilots darel square, Commissioner's house and Mitchell house

1. Commissioner's house
2. Cobbs hill methodist church
3. Barrs bay park
4. Verdmont historic house museum
5. Jeffreys cave
6. Lost at sea memorial
7. Pilot Darrell square
8. st. Peters church
9. st. Georges historical society museum
10. Bermudian heritage museum
11. Joseph rainey exhibit at tucker house museum

First, bus from Hamilton is at 6:45am on weekdays, at 7:15am on Saturday and 9:45am on Sunday.The last bus from Hamilton is at 10:45pm on all days.

The bus routes cover the main roads throughout the island and leave the City of Hamilton every 20-30 minutes. With a number of different routes and zones you can hop on and off at any destination to explore the island.

Site #1

St. Peter's Church

Segregated Seating

Info

The Black Cemetery

Visiting hours:
anyone can visit this place from 11am to 3pm

Entry Fee:

To get in you must pay 2$ per person

The reason this historic Church is placed in this list is because the massive cemetery wrapping around the entire building consisting of only people of color. During the segregation, people of color were not allowed to be buried in a regular cemetery and had to have their own, seperate from where caucasians were buried.

Along with being buried in a different cemetery people of color also had to sit in different seating within the church. They had to enter through a different door and would have to go up steps to get to the seating. Nowadays there is a organ there but when they had to sit there was no organ so they had a tiny bit of room but not a lot.

Site #2

Selfie Spot!

Barr's Bay Park

At Barr's Bay Park you will find the 'We Arrive' statue. They built the statue because less than one year after Bermuda slaves won emancipation (in 1835), the american Briganin Enterprise having set sail from virginia was blown off course by a savage winter storm and forced to seek refuge in Barrs Bay harbour Bermuda. Slavery had not been abolished in America yet but it was is Bermuda. This meant all the slaves were freed and sent on their way. Everyone on board except a mother and her 5 children were freed. The mother and her family would have been freed but they wanted to see their father and remained slaves.