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One Hundred and Fifty: John Moultrie’s American Slaves Sent to the Bahamas in 1784

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One Hundred and Fifty: John Moultrie’s American Slaves Sent to the Bahamas in 1784

The Moultrie name appears to have been introduced into The Bahamas in 1784. It came from South Carolina by way of East Florida, carried by 150 enslaved people sent there Continue Reading

Posted On : May 4, 2026 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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“If I Should Die Before I Wake” The Death And Battle For Justice: Cyprian Michael Newry (1956-1984)

On the morning of April 30, 1984, a young Bahamian man was found dead in Miami, Florida. He was 27 years old. He had been discharged at 11:00 pm from Continue Reading

Posted On : April 25, 2026 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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Coalition of Chiefs Collapses: Dissident Eight — All Voted Out 1972

Lynden Pindling did not stumble into power. He built it. Brick by brick, constituency by constituency, through years of organizing, sacrifice, and disciplined political warfare against an entrenched oligarchy that Continue Reading

Posted On : April 24, 2026 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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How a Black Bahamian Democrat Brought the Bay Street Boys Back From the Dead: Stephen Spurgeon Bethel (1913–1994)

Let us begin with the audacity of it. In 1972, a Black Bahamian man — expelled from his own party, stripped of his parliamentary seat, politically counted out — sat Continue Reading

Posted On : April 21, 2026 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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John P. Dean of Dean’s Lane — Free Man of Colour, Land Owner, Master of Ten Slaves, Member of the House of Assembly

Dean’s Lane is over 182 years old. The road was there before 1844. It sits today, part of a parcel of 281 acres of land, as it has since 1808, Continue Reading

Posted On : April 19, 2026 Published By : The Bahamianologist

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