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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.48,0:00:05.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...emancipation, the blacks were able to do anything they wanted,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.97,0:00:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the poor whites had a very rough time.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.98,0:00:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost immediately at emancipation,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.30,0:00:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the plantation owners said "we no longer need militia tenants,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.08,0:00:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we no longer, the freed people will no longer receive clothing from us,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.29,0:00:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so we don't need these white seamstresses any more to produce this clothing",
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.83,0:00:32.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they just ordered them off the plantation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.04,0:00:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] Displaced, the poor whites were reduced to living in chattal houses like the former slaves.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.10,0:00:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unique to Barbados, these cheap wooden houses
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.17,0:00:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be moved from plantation to plantation,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.00,0:00:47.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as workers chased scarce jobs. [/narrator]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.48,0:00:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They would walk half over the island to demand alms,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.88,0:00:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or, depend for their subsistence on the charity of slaves.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.58,0:01:01.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet, they are as proud as Lucifer himself,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.29,0:01:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in virtue of their freckled, ditchwater faces,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.96,0:01:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consider themselves on a level with every gentleman in the island."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.92,0:01:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] Robert Burns almost indentured himself in the West Indies.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.88,0:01:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The poet who wrote "A Slave's Lament".
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.58,0:01:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Island paradise?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.96,0:01:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're lucky.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.46,0:01:27.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we mustn't forget that history also has its victims in the Scottish diaspora. [/narrator]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.58,0:01:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have the remarkable fact that, ehm,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.96,0:01:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the national poet, Robert Burns, eh, would have been on his way to become,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.46,0:01:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eh, a book keeper, that was the euphemistic phrase used.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.50,0:01:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A book keeper.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.77,0:01:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it hadn't been for the success of his first publication
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.58,0:01:47.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Kilmarnock edition of his poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.54,0:01:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably one of the great ironies
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.42,0:01:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the original population of Barbados and other islands
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.75,0:01:55.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were prisoners who were coerced,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.58,0:01:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prisoners who went there you know to, through no design of their own.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.46,0:02:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it could be argued, very ironic in a sense,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.50,0:02:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that those Scots who succeeded later,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.38,0:02:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who extracted much profit and fortunes from the Caribbean,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.08,0:02:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were building their achievements on the blood, on the suffering,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.83,0:02:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of their fellow countrymen, of the, of the, of the 17th century.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.04,0:02:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that has never stopped any 18th century Scot.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.38,0:02:23.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mo, the important thing is the profit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.67,0:02:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The, I mean, the lust for gain in this society,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.17,0:02:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially among the elites,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.29,0:02:31.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was quite extraordinary.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.67,0:02:35.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] And not all Redlegs remained poor.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.17,0:02:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Richard Goddard in one of the richest businessmen on Barbados,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.12,0:02:41.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and enormously proud of his Redleg ancestry.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.83,0:02:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His grandfather walked barefoot to town,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.17,0:02:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,opened a rum shop,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.50,0:02:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and built an empire. [/narrator]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.53,0:02:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This photograph of nine fishermen on Bath Beach
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.54,0:02:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was taken about 1908.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.59,0:02:58.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are black and white fishermen,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.50,0:03:03.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the one on the back row to the right is Thomas Henry Goddard,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.29,0:03:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that would be my grandfather's uncle.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.12,0:03:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you notice that they're all wearing {\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0} bag, which is the jute bag,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.25,0:03:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where head and shoulders were cut out,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.12,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were all barefooted.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.00,0:03:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a bottle of rum on the ground,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.75,0:03:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would suspect that they were probably bribed to stand still for the photograph.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.39,0:03:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember my brother in law telling me
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.26,0:03:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that once he asked my grandfather, who is now in his 80's,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.54,0:03:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Joe, tell me about the good old days when you were a boy,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.53,0:03:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my grandfather start to cry.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.66,0:03:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said "No, Dennis, they were not good days,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.83,0:03:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.12,0:03:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew what it was like to be hungry, sick, no job, no opportunity,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.96,0:03:49.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I certainly would not wish to call those good days"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.29,0:03:56.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1834 when the police force was formed,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.21,0:03:59.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the military tenants really were, were then put off the land,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.17,0:04:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they weren't needed any longer,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.92,0:04:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these people had been on those, as military tenants,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.85,0:04:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for probably 150 years.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.80,0:04:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The biggest majority were {\u1}_{\u0},
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.50,0:04:14.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they ended up there because the land was poor.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.83,0:04:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're at the top of Hackleton's Cliff, and in the parish of St. John,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.21,0:04:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and eh this was not only a physical barrier, but a social barrier as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.71,0:04:28.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who lived below, the poor whites,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.75,0:04:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were identified as people coming from below the cliffs, so it was a barrier for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.96,0:04:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there were 3 points you could get out,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.38,0:04:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either the gates, monkey jump, or the ladders.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.04,0:04:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And over there to my right, where those coconut trees are,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.50,0:04:47.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the base of monkey jump.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.71,0:04:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would come up probably about 200 hundred yards,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.92,0:04:55.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you had to come on all fours at times,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.25,0:04:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then at times in crop you would carry cane on your head,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.29,0:05:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably bundles of 8 canes, probably weighed 40 or 50 lbs,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.88,0:05:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you got $1.44 or 6 shillings for 10 of cane.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.64,0:05:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were living here because that's where land was cheapest.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.29,0:05:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was very rocky, it was not suitable for cultivation for the plantations,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.25,0:05:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they would pay about $8/acre per year rent.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.92,0:05:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But down here you really got it for $4, it was just so bad it would have been reduced.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.88,0:05:26.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You had to plant among the stones to get some form of a crop.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.67,0:05:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was extremely hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.08,0:05:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think that many of them really knew much about their forebearers,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.16,0:05:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they knew they'd come from Scotland and Ireland, or somewhere in England.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.50,0:05:39.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact England covered everything, the mother country that{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}{\u0} referred to.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.67,0:05:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their little world, even to go to town, some people who'd lived their whole life here,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.42,0:05:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cannot go into Bridgetown.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.00,0:05:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] We hear much about Scots who've traveled abroad and found riches,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.33,0:05:58.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,success, contributed to the progress of nations.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.21,0:06:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not all were so lucky.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.00,0:06:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many fled poverty only to find it again.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.00,0:06:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Barbados is an obect lesson in what happens to a people who are robbed of their identity.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.34,0:06:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,St. Margaret's Anglican Church is on the hill above Martin's Bay.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.96,0:06:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm 3,000 miles away from home, from Scotland,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.96,0:06:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet outside that church I meet an elderly man,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.12,0:06:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a man with whom I've more in common than I could ever have guessed. [/narrator]
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.88,0:06:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] Just down there, there's a Glenburnie?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.40,0:06:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I live quite near Glenburnie in Scotland.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.06,0:06:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did your grandfather do?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.54,0:06:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that must've been really hard...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.48,0:07:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is yer country.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.66,0:07:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is yer home.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.88,0:07:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're also Barbadian, but do you feel Scottish as well?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.92,0:07:38.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] Irish photographer Sheena Jolley has known the Redlegs of Martin's Bay for years.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.75,0:07:41.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now she's back, photographing this diminishing population [/narrator]
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.58,0:07:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Initially I went in, and they were quite suspicious of me,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.02,0:07:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I was on my own, I was female, and I had worked there,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.83,0:07:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, ehm. they allowed me to talk to them,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.42,0:07:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the more time I spent with them, the more I got to know them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.12,0:08:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The poor whites have been suppressed since the 17th century,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.21,0:08:06.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and really, nothing has changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.21,0:08:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were looked down upon by the blacks, and by the better-off whites.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.96,0:08:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That hadn't changed in 2000,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.88,0:08:15.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm pleased to say that since I've come back,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.17,0:08:17.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think there's a huge change there.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.17,0:08:22.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think before there was very little integration between the blacks and the whites.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.47,0:08:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I photographed Aileen Downey in 2000,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.33,0:08:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she actually lived in a stone house,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.50,0:08:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there was no running water, no electricity,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.17,0:08:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and once a week she boiled water to wash herself.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.84,0:08:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life was hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.62,0:08:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was collecting coconuts, splitting the husks,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.37,0:08:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, and selling those to a nursery to grow orchids.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.88,0:08:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was in her 70's, she was very fit.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.62,0:09:00.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was interesting for me to re-photograoh her.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.75,0:09:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps her life was easier in some ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.98,0:09:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but her living circumstances were dreadful.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.86,0:09:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.00,0:09:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But she was still happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.27,0:09:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In spite of all that adversity,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.50,0:09:12.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was still smiling, still telling jokes.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.62,0:09:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[narrator] Joyce and Nita are Aileen Downey's sisters,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.33,0:09:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who also live in a chattal house in Martin's Bay.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.58,0:09:47.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kind of fishing?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.08,0:09:56.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fantastic.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.47,0:09:58.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you sell the fish or...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.45,0:10:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No that hard a life!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.12,0:10:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eating lobster, that sounds great.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.47,0:10:33.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Redlegs of Barbados run a barter economy.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.49,0:10:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone helps one another.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.92,0:10:38.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some breed pigs, others grow breadfruit, some still fish.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.75,0:10:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Between them, they survive as a unit, a community.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.33,0:10:50.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's a really Scottish name!
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.58,0:10:54.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know about your Scottish connection?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.04,0:11:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a shame isn't it...
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.58,0:12:56.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My name is Eustace Norris.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.75,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,{\u1}{\u1}{\u0}_{\u0} my old parents, my family...