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Black Bermudians, African Bermudians, Afro-Bermudians or Bermudians of African descent, are Bermudians with any appreciable Black African ancestry. The population descends from Africans who arrived in Bermuda during the 17th century as indentured servants and slaves, mostly via Spanish, or former Spanish, territories or Spanish and other ships wrecked at Bermuda or captured by Bermuda-based ...
Sir Edward Trenton "ET" Richards (4 October 1908 [1] – May 1991) was the first Black Bermudian to head the government of Bermuda and the first Premier of Bermuda. He was the leader of the United Bermuda Party (UBP) between 1971 and 1973. He was a vocal critic of segregation. [2] [3] [4]
The first African slaves arrived in Bermuda in 1617, not from Africa but from the West Indies. Bermuda Governor Tucker sent a ship to the West Indies to find black slaves to dive for pearls in Bermuda. More black slaves were later trafficked to the island in large numbers, originating from America and the Caribbean. [16]
The first blacks to arrive in Bermuda in any numbers were free blacks who came in the mid-seventeenth century from Spanish-speaking areas of the West Indies, and most of the remainder were recently enslaved Africans captured from the Spanish.
United Bermuda Party: 1968: 2 Sir Edward Richards (1908–1991) 29 December 1971 18 April 1973: 1 year, 110 days United Bermuda Party: 1972: First Black Bermudian Premier: Premiers (1973–present) 1 Sir Edward Richards (1908–1991) 18 April 1973: 29 December 1975 2 years, 255 days United Bermuda Party — 2 John Sharpe (1921–1999) 29 ...
Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon (20 March 1895 – 20 April 1955), born in Trinidad and Tobago, was a physician, parliamentarian, civil-rights activist [1] and labour leader in Bermuda, and is regarded as the "father of trade unionism" there: [2] "he championed the cause of Bermudian workers and fought for equal rights for black Bermudians, thereby laying the groundwork for much of the political and ...
A post on Palmerston's X account, announced the black and white rescue cat - who served as the chief mouser Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) between 2016-2020 - had moved to the ...
First edition cover (recreation) Mary Prince (c. 1 October 1788 – after 1833) [1] was the first black woman to publish an autobiography of her experience as a slave, born in the colony of Bermuda to an enslaved family of African descent. After being sold a number of times and being moved around the Caribbean, she was brought to England as a ...