The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
The surname Forbes, like Rolle, and Bain are some of the more prevalent surnames in the Bahamas. They, like many others, were names of slave masters, adopted by slaves, after Continue Reading
What did it mean to be female and black during slavery? It symbolised nothing good that’s for sure. Being constantly interfered with, is about as sterile a term, as one Continue Reading
Black slaveowners remains a quarrelsome subject. A number of free blacks and free coloureds, in the Bahamas, owned slaves. And some sold slaves as well. Negroes from Africa, labelled as Continue Reading
Substantial crown land grants, given to the Loyalists, an assortment of British settlers, and to a miscellaneous hodgepodge of opportunist supporters of the English monarchy, were nothing short of staggering. Continue Reading
The Curry surname, in the Bahamas, came from Scotland. According to a 1962 research paper entitled The American Loyalists in the Bahamas: Who They Were, written by Thelma Peters, it Continue Reading
