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Haiti’s flag will be given a place of pride at Somerset Cricket Club for Cup Match in tribute to the Caribbean nation’s historic role in Emancipation. Ernest Peets, the Minister of Youth, Culture and Sport, joined the presentation of the flag to Dawn...

Youngsters who went on an educational voyage returned to Bermuda yesterday after sailing to and from the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Spirit of Bermuda, which set sail from Grand Turk on Monday, took a group of teenagers to the Turks and Caicos Isla...

We should honour Mary Prince for her odds-defying accomplishments, but we should not make the mistake of mythologising her

A rediscovered account of slavery in Bermuda has shed new light on its brutality after the story was “lost in obscurity” 175 years ago. A Narrative of the life of Benjamin Benson was written 16 years after the story of Mary Prince, a Bermuda Nati...

Youngsters set sail to the Turks and Caicos Islands with a cargo of limestone yesterday to re-enact a centuries-old exchange. The pupils aboard the Spirit of Bermuda will trade the limestone blocks for salt while they learn about the global impact of...

The Emperial Group of Companies is spearheading the restoration of the historic Somers Playhouse in St George’s as part of a trailblazing strategy to align Bermuda's Cup Match holiday with the newly minted United States federal holiday, Juneteenth Na...

An award-winning documentary film made by a Bermudian-based production company is to screen on the island for the first time. It is the uncovered story of forced slavery in textile manufacturing at the bottom of the clothing industry. The Price o...

A year ago Reverend Lorne Bean started a tour at St Peter’s, where the churchyard tells the story of Bermuda’s “chequered” past. Built shortly after the island was settled in 1612, it shows a clear divide: the western section was reserved for slaves,...

There was a time when people spent a lot more time talking to each other. Diane Ferlatte picked up their stories, added some that were better known, pulled in some of her own and shared them with audiences around the world. “You don't plan on it,” sh...

A virtual lecture on the accidental arrival of a slave ship on the island just months after emancipation is to be held as part of the National Museum of Bermuda’s “Atlantic World” series. The talk will be available for free on Zoom and focus on event...

Sold, which extends the legacy of Mary Prince in shining a light on Britain’s barbaric role in colonial slavery, left its audience stunned on Thursday evening. During a post-performance Q&A session, some thanked the award-winning cast members and...

In the early ‘90s Amantha Edmead read Mary Prince’s autobiography as part of a Black history class in London, England. It was a time in her life when she was interested in revolutions and the people behind them; the British abolitionist, who was the ...