Even today in Colombia and in the world millions of people are sold as slaves.
Either beg for a little humanity.
A moment of tenderness.
They go to sea and take the road
Because they have lost everything.
Starting with their dignity and their own legal rights.
Claver: Stories from Africa
The sea is the first to receive me in this mythical city of treasures, pirates ...
Battles, Catholics and slaves.
Those who come from Africa to feel the inevitable death their freedom
When they arrived at these beaches; the same ones where I am now ...
I've come to discover that past and I think I've found where to start.
Claver was the general defense and refuge of all black men and black women...
So they came to him when they needed some comfort or some help and he gave them to him.
Not only with words.
He encouraged and consoled them with fervent exhortations.
But also with acts.
He spoke for them before their masters and asked them with entreaties ...
That they did not bother them and did not punish them uselessly.
Good morning.
Do you know where the monastery of San Pedro Claver is?
Over there.
And you do not know who he was?
Do not you know his story?
Thank you so much.
Pedro Claver, I read that he helped the blacks in a Cartagena of yesteryear where it was believed that they had no soul.
The streets seem to point towards my destination.
The place where he lived and the people who told me what it was that he did.
When the Spaniards arrived to conquer America...
They were at a time when slavery is common and current.
Nowadays we see it as something extraordinary and totally unpleasant.
At that time to see slavery was like us to see today's workers...
Employees or workers in the field.
San Pedro Claver comes to America not properly to look for slaves ...
But he came as a missionary.
The main port of Cartagena was this one.
Here was where the ships arrived from Spain and from Africa.
Everything that came from Europe came to here.
Father Claver had his room here, on this point.
Behind the church.
Then...
With its windows that were small...
I saw the arrival of the boats...
And that's where I went to meet them.
Here came those who came to work and those who came by.
And that excited Father Claver.
Claver saw in the work with the poor black slaves what he was looking for.
Make them some people.
He wanted to let them see that they had their values and their dignities...
And that they had to be respected.
And for almost 40 years he is dedicated to that.
Historical Museum of Cartagena.
San Pedro Claver was going through a circumstance that at that juncture...
did not allow the issue of slavery or the slave trade
to have that opportunity for liberation.
What he did was to make visible ...
And that society in general would reflect a bit on the role...
of what were the slaves that despite being a merchandise had a human side
and therefore were owed contribute with certain things.
They said he was coming to protect them and father.
It was so tender the love that showed them in the countenance.
That looking at them and they looking at him...
He said more to the eyes than the words of the interpreters in their ears.
They understood, even though they were foreigners, that mute speech of looking.
And with a hidden sympathy, they went to love their father.
Colombia is a country of mixture.
Here what lives is the mix of people.
It is more noticeable in some parts than in others but that is the mixture.
San Pedro Claver was ahead of its time ...
and what are we saying today what said Father Claver.
That's what he said, that's what he dedicated himself to.
He did not dedicate himself to confronting black people with white people.
San Pedro Claver always remained on the site of the mixes.
And here he was a great friend of the Spaniards and great friend of the blacks, great friend of those who were mixed.
He was friends with everyone.
That was the work of San Pedro Claver ...
He made us see that we are siblings.
What are the interests of San Pedro Claver? I do not have it very clear.
But many historians say that...
San Pedro Claver hid the instruments from blacks.
And then so that they could return to the blacks the instruments had to pay for that.
Then history is never how they tell ...
There is always a nuance.
Hi Amet.
Hi Geraldine. How are you?
I am fine, and you?
Fine, fine.
I am glad.
Thanks.
What do you feel when you are playing the folkloric drum, when your hands are playing this instrument?
It's like...
Satisfaction.
Well, that's like a current that enters your body and the truth that drives you to continue and keep playing.
And more when people dance what you are playing.
It's as if you paint a painting and people put it in their house.
When I play the folkloric drum here I get very excited.
But their house is the body and what you paint is music.
Dance group All Afrik.
I feel quite proud of my race because I feel that already as of several years we are encouraging people ...
That this is not just a fad.
But also this is a lifestyle and I quite like this.
I also like it because I love my hair, I go out with my hair.
Being Afro-Colombian is not just being black.
Afro-Colombians are all of us. We are Caribbean, we are Africa.
For me that is positive since our youth now does not grow so ignorant.
Actually the only dance step that you leave me ...
Okay.
But show me it...
Again.
One, two, three, four...
And the other foot.
One, two, three, four...
First of all I consider myself Afro-Colombian, my color and my hair says it all.
And in reality many of us have lost this identity...
and we want to recover it we want with all the effort that we are making to...
recover it ... to be it again.
For me being Afro is like identity, its colors...
the dances and the way of being from the different cities in Africa ...
Everyone has their essence like here in Colombia.
Each city has its essence, has something that differentiates them but at the same time unites them.
He was on his knees to thank God for having given them a prosperous trip...
for the health of their souls.
The first thing he did was to find out his country and look for interpreters...
with whom he could catechize and instruct them
in our holy faith.
As in fact he was looking for them and he had them ready for that purpose.
What are the basic rhythms we are talking about right now?
The pulla and cumbia.
Well, look. I'm going to teach you some basic rhythms.
You're going to drop your hand. Nothing else you drop it and you raise it.
That is the closed blow.
The blow burned is like a whip.
That is the blow burned.
Beat closed and burned.
It does not sound.
Move your body more and lower more.
The lower?
The more you flex your body.
It works very well for you!
You should practice.
I do not practice, I do not know. I am arrhythmic.
You are not arrhythmic, do not cheat.
It rains and the city remains motionless. I was also trapped.
The droplets that fall help me reflect.
Although Claver helped, he also suppressed those forms of expression when he silenced the drums.
However...
Its sound still resonates with us like other forms of expression.
So that this band-aid does not fit like that, you keep it as if you were keeping the rest of the cloth.
And what you do in the end is that you wind this up as if it were a snail.
Your turban is finished.
The turban has given me the freedom to express myself without being afraid to show myself as I am.
Without being afraid to risk, for example, to use colors to see me differently from others.
It seems important to me that people understand that being black or being of African descent is not linked to a skin color.
It is to understand that we come from a mixture of different origins where there are many mixed things.
Historically the theme of being black ...
Everything related to being black has many stigmas.
So between that the turban has also been loaded with certain stigmata such as relating it to...
that they put on it, as a woman who was in a workshop told me...
That I seemed santera.
It is necessary to understand that nowadays the Cartagena society is in part what it was previously in its past.
Then characters like Claver play an important role in the history of the city ...
Because he was making visible actors who historically had not been staged...
and that although it is true that contributed in one way or another that
the enslaved was not seen as a mere commodity.
When we reflect on that historical reality that was very hard...
We all understand the reality of enslavement.
Well... we talk about people of African descent.
But it occurs to me that there are also descendants of the masters.
I mean...
There are people who are in line who are heirs of a legacy of enslavement...
and others who are heirs of a legacy of masters.
Power needs to have people subjugated because there has to be control.
But society would not exist.
And then see what controls us.
We control the skin, money...
and there is always a subject that is above you
which tells you what you have and what you should not do.
Racism was also shaped that way.
I wonder why this city will be so hard to value the difference...
if it has always been a territory of mixtures.
Give it your head.
Give it your head.
Look out!
Are you going to comb your hair?
Suddenly you can get a pigeon leg there.
But the busy pigeon taking the corn from my hair.
But that is relaxing.
The treasures of Cartagena are not only in the gold that managed to stay in our lands...
Those treasures are also in its people.
One of the most difficult things we have is to accept the difference.
The strange.
It is very human that anything strange unsettles me.
Then we have to start processes of acceptance of the distinct...
The different.
We talk about biodiversity and it's a wonder.
What would happen if there were only roses in the garden?
No.
So we have to enter into that perspective of welcoming each other.
We must recognize the wonders that God has placed in each culture, each way of life.
It should not be a threat.
How is it possible that a human community could be the source of danger for me?
On the contrary...
On the contrary, the diversity in which we find ourselves is favorable to realize a more human coexistence ...
Precisely.
He caressed the sick.
He cleaned them of pus.
He embraced them.
And with his same hands...
When they could no longer use theirs...
He put them in his mouth of the preserves he had...
And he also gave them fresh water.
In this room died the venerable father Pedro Claver ...
On September 8, 1654.
Why?
Because he had a disease...
that was called "The evil of San Vito".
It seems that it was one of those diseases now but they called him the people of the town.
Then...
He spent four years in the school infirmary.
This was the infirmary of the school.
Here was Father Claver his last four years.
When the Pope said "Yes, it is truly worth thinking about the canonization Father Claver's"
Then they brought the remains from there...
And they brought them, first here to a little tomb, a tiny tomb...
And then when they canonized him there.
He told me: "Brother, when I die I want to be buried in the church...
under my confessional"
And I told him...
No father, under the confessional not.
Because it would be at the doors of the temple...
and people would not dare to pass over his corpse.
I'm going to bury him in the chapel of Christ.
To this sinful body? he claimed.
Would not it also scare away those who come to venerate the Holy Christ?
Finally...
When the crowd finished honoring him at his last Mass...
We buried him where I had announced...
In the chapel of Christ.
I hope that Claver will be an inspiration to treat others as brothers and not just stay in the word ...
A word written from the beginning of time.
Saying it is easy but it should not be that hard to do it.
I learned it on this trip where...
I found more than I was looking for.
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