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“(1825) Hezekiah Frith Jr’s Notice in the Gazette, which read: One Doubloon Reward Absconded, on the 26th May, Negro Man Tim, belonging to Hezekiah Frith, Sen, Esq, yellow complexion stout male, about 6 feet high, and a carpenter by trade, H...

“Benjamin’s owners disfigured his face with a knife to discourage him from running away, and others from kidnapping him, then branded his shoulder as an additional identifier. Both marks he bore for the rest of his life.” — Andrew G. Welch, th...

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

“Any business operating with a business model that is predicated on poverty wages should seek to change their business model” — Jason Hayward 2021 (paraphrasing US president Franklyn Delano Roosevelt) “Rolfe, I have been making the same $20 ...

“I will argue that the Constitution played a significant role in maintaining racial inequality in Bermuda following the civil rights era. While it ostensibly sought to end racial discrimination through its requirement that ‘no law shall make any ...

Who is the little toddler in the picture dressed in white, imploring — no demanding — for his momma to let him go? “Please, momma!” Is he the same one taking charge of the transportation pool where all of the high-end baby carriages were parked? Back...

“The political exclusion of Blacks was supplemented by an equally conscious attempt to limit their influence through immigration and population policies. Once emancipation was imminent, White Bermudians began to suggest to Blacks that they leave ...

I read Khalid Wasi’s response to my op-ed entitled “Know your place” with interest and some bemusement. Typically, it contained once again his revisionist take on Bermuda’s mid to late 20th-century history for about the 500th time. Khalid, please le...

“What I think is of concern is that the problem is no longer back of town. You’re dealing with an element that knows no boundaries.” — Paul King (Robin Hood owner) “Bermuda still suffers from too many dysfunctional families. It must provid...

“Like clay pressed into a mould, Covid outbreaks tend to conform to the contours of a country’s existing inequalities and cracks, replicating them over again.” — Tess McClure, columnist, Christchurch, New Zealand (The Guardian) The number f...