Lucayan contribution to 16th-century price and supply monetary theory
In the 16th century, the Lucayan Indians of The Bahamas played a pivotal role in the development of early Monetary ...
I am the darker brother – Majority Rule 10th January 1967
“…I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes. But I laugh, And ...
White man parks Sidney Poitier’s car after black hotel porter REFUSED – Nassau 1964
There are some stories, in Bahamian history, which have come to epitomise what some have termed “black crab syndrome”. There ...
Music as Identity: Should Bahamian Music Officially Be Called Goombay?
One can argue that independence, in 1973, had many goals to accomplish. Within that political exercise, negotiating sovereignty away from ...
Freedom Park, Fox Hill Dedicated in 1967 Sits On Historical Cemetery
Where Freedom Park in Fox Hill, Nassau, sits today, there once was a historically significant burial place. In 1967, new ...
The Many Hats of Stephen Dillet,… but was he also an angry Arsonist in 1825?
Bahamians have, not too surprisingly, put a lot of stock into the historical personality that was Stephen Dillet. The reasons ...
The Hon. Lewis Kerr legitimises his mulatto slave daughter Eliza Ann 1826
The fate of mulatto children —the children of white slaveowners— was as precarious as any other slave. All depended on ...
Runaway White Slaves – Wilhelm and Muller (Germans) – Nassau 1805
How and why two German men, became runaway white slaves, in Nassau, in 1805, is not so strange as one ...
“Meaho” an African Dies of Starvation in Grant’s Town 1837
Life is ‘SOLITARY, POOR, NASTY, BRUTISH, AND SHORT’ so says philosopher Thomas Hobbes in 1651. In January 1837, an African ...
Henry Forbes, a free black man and his runaway son Henry 1809
Being a parent, in 1800s Bahamas, was apparently as complicated as it is today. Strong-willed children—or as Bahamians like to ...