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Conference: September 27 to October 1, 2006 |
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| The concept of the African Diaspora Heritage Trail (ADHT) is one of a unified cross border cultural tourism initiative to educate visitors, enhance economic viability of African Diaspora countries and conserve the essence of African descent, culture and history. The ADHT Conference itself will facilitate longterm relationships between Bermuda and the Caribbean, African nations, North America and South America. It will also represent an opportunity for countries of the Diaspora, venues within the Diaspora and the best minds to gather annually to discuss heritage and cultural issues pertinent to tourism, culture, education, economic development and improvement of the quality of life within host communities | ||||||||||||
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| In 2002 Bermuda hosted the
First African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference. Bermuda which has enjoyed
a worldclass reputation in both marketing and destination quality sought
to enhance the quality of its product by adding a cultural and heritage
component. It was understood that solutions to today’s development and
conservation problems eluded a single disciplinary approach and required
interdisciplinary solutions.
Heritage tourism offered a framework within which many of the associated fields could be combined into socially valuable, economically sustainable and environmentally friendly entities. |
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| Bermuda hoped that the commitment of its expertise and resources would act as a catalyst for likeminded members of the Diaspora and provide a heretofore missing forum for addressing cutting edge issues. Toward that end the Bermuda Ministry of Tourism convened a conference of diverse experts from the Americas, the Caribbean and Africa to determine the course that such an initiative should follow. The focus was on asserting the influence and contribution of the African Diaspora in its most positive light. The underlying assumption was that the African Diaspora Heritage Trail would be expanded to link historic cultural sites and events in other countries of the Diaspora so that visitors and host communities could enrich the quality of their experience by following the overall route and becoming properly informed of the sites and events of significance. The meeting was enormously successful. | ||||||||||||
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| Explore Bermuda's Heritage Trail: Thirteen sites have been identified, including the site of the slave ship Enterprise incident, which, like the similar, better-known Amistad affair, involved the rescuing of slaves seeking refuge and freedom; and the historic Slave Graveyard at St. Peter's Church (ca. 1612), both located in St. George's (UNESCO's newest World Heritage Site); 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. | ||||||||||||
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