WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT BRISTOL AND SLAVERY?
What do we need to know? What do we want others to know? What does it mean to you?CONTENTS (some ideas)
1 Introduction
2 Timeline of main events
[NB:there's the European timeline and there's the bigger picture]
3 “Black History” in Bristol
nb: from Time to Obama’s Bristol
Research: Madge Dresser , Pip Jones
4 Bristol , and black in Bristol !!
Glass ceilings
Jamaicans and Yardies
Somali – Caribbean relations
Conditioning , hypocrisy,
Direction-what direction? ,leadership, vision for community
5 Ownership, money, power,
[nb: Equanomics ],
Being ‘Rich’ & Being ‘Wealthy’ , nb; Chris Rock
6 Personal, Community, Political Power and Empowerment
7 What are we ‘doing’ about ‘it’?
7.1 Festival of the sea etc
7.2 Willie Lynch mentality
7.3Positive Role models , heroes sheroes
Fagon?
Modern (s)heroes
Historic (s)heroes
8 Struggle and Survival against sustained attacks,
9 Cabot Circus…why is our city centre called this? ,
10 Colston and Cabot,
who were they? what’s the difference?
11 A Tour of Bristol
12 Language – ‘slave’, ‘black’…,
13 Responsibility, Guilt, Shame and Blame
To what extent can you be responsible for the ‘sins of the fathers’ – [the apology debate]
And ‘victimhood’
14 How come we (young people) don’t know?’
Power
Legacy
history
15 Violence, Knives, Guns
Is there a connection between this present reality and the slavery connection?
16 Mental Health
Is it lack of culture, experience of slavery, conflict in identity, or too much weed?
17 Researching and Writing our History
Ancestors – who were they?
Can we research our own history?
18 Education and Empowerment,
Does the ‘Black Boys’ mantra actually bear out??? – ‘underachievment’ =-
What’s there for learning?
Does it work?
What are we trying to do?
19 Forms of slavery then and now?
20 Racism , The BNP view?
21 Locations in Bristol – things to look out for, Pero’s bridge, fagon.. (trail)
22 Black History ‘month’!
23 Black & White
Mixed race
Forbidden fruit
A ‘black perspective’ a ‘white perspective’
24 Where’s the wealth today?
What beneficiaries?
Merchants and their descendents ?
