Anti-Slavery Tour & Museum Visit On March 22nd
Sankofa Bermuda will hold an Anti-Enslavement tour on Sunday, March 22, honoring the UN’s International Remembrance Day of Enslavement and CARICOM’s Repair Campaign.
A spokesperson said, “In recognition of The United Nations, International Remembrance day of Enslavement and Transatlantic Enslavement which is held every year on March 25th, along with Caricom’s Repair Campaign movement which acknowledges the remembrance and honors the memory of the ancestors who fought for Freedom from Chattel Enslavement being held from Mar 21st to 25th, Sankofa Bermuda is offering an Anti-Enslavement tour and visiting the National Museum of Bermuda in Dockyard on Sunday, March 22nd from 11:30AM to 1:30PM and cost is $35 per person, and tickets must be purchased in advance on www.ptix.bm.
“For over 500 years, countless men, women, and children were the victims of the tragic European transatlantic enslavement trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history. Also termed as the MAAFA or the great disaster that happened upon a people. This tragedy also took place in British Overseas Territories, such as Bermuda. On this tour you will hear the stories based on Britain’s Enslavement History in Bermuda and how this affected Africa and the world, along with the systemic distribution of wealth, power, and legacies built over the past 500 years from enslavement.
“It is our task, to know our past and honor it, to engage our present and improve it, and to imagine a good future and to forge it.
“Tickets can be purchased at www.ptix.bm.”
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Here we go again more crying.Instead of discussing slavery 24/7 can we discuss Bermudas boom years of the 60s 70s and 80s where everyone worked with the island at full capacity where u can change jobs almost overnight,1 percent crime affordable housing and rents clean roads people eating out every night.
Maybe u should look at Ireland in the 70s and 80s where white were killed just for being catholic or the uk back then with 3 million unemployed.
We are in economic slavery now where people are living on the streets people can’t afford grocery’s or rent apartments.Can you being that up instead?
Will there be displays of West African slave markets? Who kept those supplied for hundreds of years again?
What about a modern slavery display? Larger than 500 years ago and no doubt this reort is a low estimate.
50 Million People Worldwide in Modern Slavery 12 September 2022
Geneva – Fifty million people were living in modern slavery in 2021, according to the latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery Report. Of these people, 28 million were in forced labour, and 22 million were trapped in forced marriage.
The Trump administration is working hard to find and recover misplaced migrant children sent to unvetted “sponsors” during the Biden administration. What is the latest count? About 450,000 children went unaccounted for; went to unvetted sponsors, failed to appear in court… 146K unaccompanied migrant minors have been located so far, from the last stories I read.