The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
Schoolmasters bending negro boys over desks to get a whacking and old white men from America, telling their wives that they have mysterious appointments, only to be found in Grants Continue Reading
With that fiery Bahamian island sun, turning the very tar on the streets to boiling molasses, it’s just too hot to stand around listening to people talk foolishness. So in Continue Reading
In 1889, Bahamian born Edgar Mayhew Bacon, then an acclaimed American author with many published books to his credit, returned to the Bahamas, to write on life in the islands. Continue Reading
As early as 1752, in an effort to populate the many near uninhabited islands of the Bahamas, the British began a program of convict, miscreant and vagabond “transportation.” Convict transportation Continue Reading
Prior to 1961, in the Bahamas, one of the reasons why many unhappily married women stayed in broken marriages was because they knew, under the common law, wives automatically lost Continue Reading
