You are either ignorant or just can’t come to grips with the archeological fact that so called blacks are the original Americans. Do some honest,unbiased research.

“The complexion of the North Carolina Indians is black,not much different from, that of the Ethiopians,their hair is black and thick and not very long, tied behind the head like a small tail. As for the physique of these men,they are well proportioned, of medium height,a little taller than we are,they have broad chests,strong arms and the legs and other parts of the body are well-composed. They are broad in the face and have big black eyes”. – Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano 1524

They are two different things…as such are connotated diff.

“Cup Match , generates hundreds of millions of dollars”

Where do you get your numbers ?

The Americans encountered by the pale European were described as copper complexioned aboriginals, misnomered Indian, black and Negro. Pictures of them showed people that look like us(America, Being an Accurate Description of the New World (1671).

The paleoamericans(see Naya/Christian Science Monitor were also similar in looks to modern Africans and Australians, East Asia surprising archeologists who expected Mongoloids.

So no, I don’t subscribe to the false narrative that would hold us in a false paradigm and perpetual victim status.

We are the original Americans and now have been relegated to foreigner from Africa. Cutting us off from our land and bloodline, the Americas which includes Bermuda.

Its time we remembered this fact and expand on it. Do away with blaec(OME) victim hood and embrace what we are, a part of the copper colored races of America with a topping off of our cousins from Africa.

America is a continent unbroken from north to south including the adjoining islands, not a country and we are aboriginal, indigenous Americans.

Thank you so much for your article and the history contained therein. Of particular interest for me, is the reference to the Watch House building, which I pass daily on my commute and never knew what it was or why it was there – thank you!

I, too, will be reflecting on what this day means to me as a young Black Bermudian woman while remembering that the journey of emancipation is still in motion.

I wonder if that was true…. it would be a huge amount of effort to horse and cart someone all the way to there after dark. would be limited light to use to travel in the dark too. Most people would go to sleep as the night set in as no electricity.

I wonder if it was some kind of false rumour used to ensure the young family members were home before dark. As it would be dangerous out in the dark with no light back then.

Perhaps someone was detained there on one occasion or was given quarter there to sleep it off.

Does anyone have any documents to the house purpose? Would be interesting to find out this part of our history.

Extension of rights, privileges and franchises

1 All rights, privileges and franchises which upon and from and after 1 August 1834, shall or may be enjoyed by white persons, shall, upon, from and after 1 August 1834, be equally enjoyed by free black and coloured persons; and upon, from and after 1 August 1834, all free black and coloured persons shall be subject to and liable to all the pains, penalties, duties, conditions, restrictions, disabilities and liabilities to which white persons shall be subject and liable.