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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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“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 ...
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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 ...
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Nancy Gambier, former slave and wet nurse to Lord James Gambier dies in Nassau 1810

Nancy Gambier died a free black woman. She certainly earned it. Nancy was wet nurse and nanny to James, Lord ...
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Slaves of Prospect Hill Sold including Adam 7 and Charity 3 – May the Ancestors Be Praised 1827

That same Prospect Ridge. That small hill connecting West Bay Street to John F Kennedy Drive, in Nassau, was once ...
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Priscilla Munnings, Free Black Woman, Hanged In 1825 Convicted Under Copyright Law

Why was Priscilla Munnings, a free black woman, hanged in August 1825, under a 1710 British copyright law - the ...
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William Campbell Adderley 1889 and Cleophas Adderley (UBP) 1967 – Black Representatives For City District, Nassau

William Campbell Adderley (1846-1892) MHA for City District (1889 until sudden death 1892) and Cleophas Adderley (elected 1967 by-election and ...
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