African Diaspora Heritage Trail
The African Diaspora Heritage Trail commemorates the role African slaves played in the formation of Bermuda. Free brochures, available from tourist offices, direct you along this self-guided tour that highlights peak points in the black cultural history of the island. A plaque marks each site.
Thirteen sites have been identified, including the site of the slave ship Enterprise incident, which, like the similar, better-known Amistad affair, involved the rescue of slaves seeking refuge and freedom, and the historic Slave Graveyard at St. Peter's Church (ca. 1612), both located in St. George; the Crow Lane site of the execution of Sally Bassett, slave revolt leader; sites associated with Mary Prince, the Bermudian slave who wrote the first account of slavery actually authored by a slave, which played a key role in the struggle to abolish slavery; and Cobb's Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church, built by slaves by moonlight.
