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Cobb’s Hill Wesleyan Methodist ChurchCobb’s Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church was the first organised church for Free Blacks and slaves on our island. Slaves and Free Blacks — who carried quarried stone upon their backs from the surrounding hills — laboured on holidays and in the evenings by candlelight to erect this Warwick Parish church, which was finally dedicated in 1827, seven years before Emancipation in Bermuda.Warwick Parish Commissioner’s House at Bermuda Maritime MuseumVisit the magnificently restored Commissioner’s House, which sits upon a hill overlooking the ocean on the grounds of the Bermuda Maritime Museum at the Royal Naval Dockyard, and you'll find an impressive exhibit highlighting both the transatlantic slave trade and slavery in Bermuda. Here, words, images and original artefacts recovered from shipwrecks found in local waters such as iron slave restraints, glass trade beads and cowry shells, bring the chilling and unforgettable story of transatlantic slavery to life. The Keep, Royal Naval Dockyard Royal Naval DockyardDuring the War of 1812, “American Refugee Negroes” (Free Blacks and Bermudian slaves), hired as labourers, worked side by side to build the most important British naval base in the Atlantic. Still others enrolled as troops to guard the Dockyard. Today, the Royal Naval Dockyard has been converted into a lovely village of shops, art galleries and eateries, but is still steeped in Bermudian history. The Royal Naval Dockyard |
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