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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...