Exploring and Understanding Newton Slave Burial Ground
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Tune in as historian Kevin Farmer and Faith Callender take us to the Newton Slave Burial Ground - the only known excavated communal slave burial ground within a plantation setting in the western hemisphere.
While telling the history of the brutal plantation system and life for enslaved men and women, it also tells us more about our rich culture and the African influences that have been handed down from to us, from the way we talk, move and dress to the food we eat and even the churches we attend.
With interpretive plans on the way, this sacred site, located in Christ Church, is now a place where we as descendants can come back as free people and pay homage to them, and a safe space where we can come to terms with a traumatic past. #BarbadosHeritageMonth #VisitBarbados #LoveBarbados
There's so much history in Barbados. Kudos to Barbados for never forgetting our African ancestors. God bless you guys.
❤❤❤❤my home 🇧🇧🇧🇧
I’ve been a guest at the Barbados Rum Experience for the last two years. On both occasions the Newton site has been discussed in some detail by Dr Tara Innis. I’m hoping to visit on my next trip, to learn more and pay my respects.
Can we have a Barbadian African ancestry DNA to find where we originated from in Africa?
All African slaves in the Americas came from West Africa
This was an extremely informative video, especially the observations re the cuisine and speech that has come down the line via West Africa and of course the sacred ground they were walking on. Great historic information, would love more of these!
RESPECT! And don't forget to read the subtext; I am a Barbadian and I attended the Lodge School, St John from 1955-1961 and the real history of Barbados was not on the curriculum. I left the island like thousands in the diaspora to see if I could make a new life for myself.
It amazing, I'm from Ghana 🇬🇭 west africa and it disturbing how our people went through all these treatment before they die , I sometimes question myself that, do God really exist for him to allow search things to happen to people without doing anything to them and it's still happening in different forms .
So amazing you commented. I am from Barbados 🇧🇧 and visited Cape Coast and Elmina in Ghana 🇬🇭. It was so touching
@@v.t.8752 oh you did, when was that ? I'm also from Takoradi and Nzemas where the late Dr Kwame Nkrumah comes from.
Many Barbadians come from the Akan ethnic group from Ghana. I myself trace my ancestry to the Akan.
Those questions are valid. I hope the answers were sought out in the bible. There’s many reason our history is such. We disobeyed God and he told us what the consequences would be. We would loose our Nation, heritage, land, language and promises as the chosen people. God (Yah) didn’t allow anything, we chose to worship false gods and follow the teachings of the gentiles instead of the true Most High🙏🏾
I remember hearing there was a burial space somewhere in St. Lucy, probably north, on rocky ground or rocky area; and I think one in St. Philip, again to the north of the parish. Can't really remember fully as it was when I was very little and the grown-ups talking. I just got bits of their talk.
Interesting. Not all persons of African descent were enslaved. This is documented in the baptism records.
This can be found out online Ancestry sites
@@ajwatson9974 Correct. The baptismal records state whether persons were free persons or enslaved.
@@ajwatson9974AjWatson - that’s is literally my name too 😂 - nice to meet yah 🤎🙏🏾
I have Bajan ancestry on my father's side. But unfortunately, I do not know for sure which parish my ancestors (from great-grandparents) lived, let alone which plantation. However, I still found this very interesting as it told of the social context in which my ancestors might have experienced.
Truth will out"..youth tends to be flippant about these area of life….we’ve all been there in one way or the other…😢
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