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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.53,0:00:08.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...they came as slaves, white slaves, that's all I know.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.21,0:00:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were in plantations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.42,0:00:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My own grandfather,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.50,0:00:14.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they work in the land,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.49,0:00:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they work in the land, my father work in the land, in the factory, making sugar.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.62,0:00:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, they had to put them all under shelter
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.45,0:00:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they couldn't stand the heat.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.75,0:00:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I work in the plantation overseas,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.08,0:00:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I work the fields, and do the boats{\u1}_{\u0}
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.21,0:00:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] What is it you love about Barbados?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.68,0:00:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I love about it, were born here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.08,0:00:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Born here, this my little island.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.09,0:00:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] So you're complete Barbadian, you're not Scottish, you're Barbadian?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.29,0:00:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I born in Barbados.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.75,0:00:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I Scottish, maybe great great great great grandfathers,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.54,0:00:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's al I could tell you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.62,0:01:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I understand my family came here by slave ship.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.75,0:01:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they was workin' as slaves,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.71,0:01:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then from there...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.96,0:01:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,went on, you know the skin couldn't take the sun,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.25,0:01:17.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they had coloured people then came.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.00,0:01:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But all my family ... growing up was with the land.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.88,0:01:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They work the land, they prepare food,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.70,0:01:31.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they never went to the supermarkets and thing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.21,0:01:35.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for everything they want to eat they'll grow it theyself.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.67,0:01:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\u1}_{\u0}almighty.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.96,0:01:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] Where are we in Barbados here?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.04,0:01:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is, eh, New Castle, close to Martin's Bay.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.58,0:01:46.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator-- can't hear question]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.17,0:01:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah,.... it look like it fit under the hill...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.92,0:01:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you stand you see it...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.79,0:01:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the property...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.17,0:02:00.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I go Sister Margaret's church.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.17,0:02:03.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0} St. John sometimes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.71,0:02:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or sometimes I go to different religion.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.92,0:02:10.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't keep one religion.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.87,0:02:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I keep everybody that connect with the almighty.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.53,0:02:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I understand that my father, his parents from Scotland,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.92,0:02:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what part of Scotland, I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.71,0:02:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, you know, people today talkin' about slavery,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.38,0:02:39.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the {\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}__
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.29,0:02:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we all {\u1}_{\u0} white people, some of us, was in slavery too,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.04,0:02:53.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they never, at least, {\u1}_{\u0} the history or my education is not that good.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.29,0:02:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My life story as far as I can remember
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.46,0:03:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I born in a place such as like a jungle, the woods, crept all woods,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.04,0:03:10.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my father and mother was pretty poor,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.78,0:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,raised up in a small 18' x 10' wooden house
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.00,0:03:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we call a chattal house.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.96,0:03:20.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a youngster,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.62,0:03:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to go __ Clifton Hall,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.46,0:03:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.64,0:03:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and has sprouts come up,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.12,0:03:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a boy I dig some...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.46,0:03:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was hungry
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.38,0:03:37.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to eat some of them raw
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.25,0:03:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to eat them kinda things to survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.79,0:03:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}__didn't get education.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.08,0:03:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got it from trying to read newspapers and comic books, and I start to get educated...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.08,0:04:00.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,workin... a cash machine, givin' back change and everything like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.75,0:04:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got the education I have.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.46,0:04:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I just relax at home now, enjoy a little pension from the government,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.21,0:04:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it ain't a big lot, but...{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}_
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.00,0:04:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] The streets of modern Scottish cities
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.71,0:04:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are closer to the chattel houses of Martin's Bay than maybe we like to think.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.62,0:04:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those old tobacco lords aren't ancient history.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.75,0:04:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our relationship with the West Indies carries on.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.88,0:04:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tom Divine reckons it's time we understood it better. [/narrator]
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.33,0:04:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's my belief that a mature nation,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.38,0:04:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think Scotlad is a lot more mature than it was 20 to 30 years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.29,0:04:45.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a mature nation with a devolved parliament,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.58,0:04:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a greater sense of national self confidence,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.12,0:04:51.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should be able to look at its past directly in the face,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.46,0:04:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and come to terms with these issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.25,0:05:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] Judith Martin is one woman who's making sense of her own past.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.00,0:05:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Judith's ancestors are Barbadian on her father's side.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.08,0:05:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An ancestor of his, was most likely William Bruce, who arrived on the island in 1746,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.73,0:05:11.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surely a Jacobite, Barbados'd after the '45.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.14,0:05:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martin and Bruce, the family names couldn't be more Scottish, or more Redleg.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.62,0:05:20.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they turned full circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.42,0:05:22.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Judith now lives in Glasgow,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.29,0:05:25.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her father brought the family back from the West Indies in search of work. [/narrator]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.73,0:05:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While we were here, he found out that there was a Scottish connection,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.12,0:05:38.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one day he said "I think that we have Scottish blood",
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.29,0:05:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, ehm, Scots went to Barbados.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.54,0:05:46.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had my grandmother's birth certificate,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.67,0:05:51.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her name was Ada Beaufort on the birth certificate,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.21,0:05:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but later, later papers that I have, name her as Bruce.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.50,0:05:59.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I reckon she was born on the plantation.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.29,0:06:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And her mother was a worker on the plantation,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.54,0:06:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I would think that her father would have been also a worker on the plantation.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.62,0:06:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her mother was a slave, quite simply.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.08,0:06:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that her father was also a slave, or white indentured labourer.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.06,0:06:26.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to write about it somehow.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.25,0:06:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I, I think my grandmother deserves that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.25,0:06:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see that big building in the middle, here, that's the plantation house.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.71,0:06:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's a beautiful, lush place.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.29,0:06:45.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's still there.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.58,0:06:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Living history.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.67,0:06:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We stood on the hill, looked down on that, and I'm emotional now, [voice cracking]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.88,0:06:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the thought of my gran.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.96,0:07:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] Washed up by history, there's little doubt that for 200 years and more,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.25,0:07:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tradewinds of Atlantic commerce blew the descendents of Scots indentured workers
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.25,0:07:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a cultural no man's land.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.92,0:07:23.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the black Bajan majority the Redlegs are a ghost people,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.58,0:07:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they know very little about their white neighbours,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.04,0:07:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing of their extraordinary story.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.96,0:07:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Redlegs are mistaken for all-drinks-included package tourists.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.90,0:07:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's partly the fault of their forefathers who chose race over class.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.79,0:07:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They won't make that mistake again.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.33,0:07:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How easy it is to lose an identity, how hard to forge a new one.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.00,0:07:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the Redlegs as an ethnic group are in danger of disappearing, it's for positive reasons.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.16,0:07:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The great great grandsons and daughters of highland and lowland Scots
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.66,0:07:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are at last becoming fully fledged Barbadians. [/narrator]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.96,0:08:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't remember where the lady came from,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.12,0:08:06.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I remember she looked at me and she asked me
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.63,0:08:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You from Barbados?".
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.80,0:08:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say "yes, I was born here",
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.29,0:08:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she say "you know, it's strange, you don't look so, you don't soud like a Bajan"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.96,0:08:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say well, I can't {\u1}_{\u0} that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.58,0:08:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause I'm a Bajan by birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.54,0:08:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are all white, we are all one, and I don't think colour should really be a discrimination.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.82,0:08:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] You're family's a great example, could you tell us about your own family now,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.83,0:08:34.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your husband and your children and you're, all that? [/narrator]
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.86,0:08:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0}
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.46,0:08:42.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were married November is 40 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.92,0:08:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first, some of my family from my father's side,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.00,0:08:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they didn't like the idea of me getting married to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.67,0:08:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I had to let them know, it is me,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.00,0:09:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think, if it is my happiness, then, it should be ok, and so far no regrets.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.62,0:09:08.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] How do you think for yer children and yer grandchildren, will it get easier? [/narrator]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.04,0:09:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm hopin' it would for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.08,0:09:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My oldest granddaughter, and she's headin' on to university.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.25,0:09:16.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But all she's tellin' me is "granny not to worry,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.25,0:09:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one good day there you're going to be out of this. I'm gonna help you"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.56,0:09:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all she's tellin' me, that's my oldest gran.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.80,0:09:24.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] Is she the first in your family to go to university? [/narrator]
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.31,0:09:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, first one in the family.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.79,0:09:30.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm very proud of her.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.25,0:09:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I feel good that's for sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.07,0:09:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't mind what people think, I feel good. And I feel proud of who I am.