The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
‘They tief every gaddamn bit… all of it was once we Crown Land,’ my Grammy used to say. ‘And there was nothing you coulda do about it, but tip your Continue Reading
Nancy Gambier died a free black woman. She certainly earned it. Nancy was wet nurse and nanny to James, Lord Gambier of New Providence. James, Lord Gambier was born in Continue Reading
That same Prospect Ridge. That small hill connecting West Bay Street to John F Kennedy Drive, in Nassau, was once a thriving plantation, worked by slaves. During slavery, it was Continue Reading
Precious little is known about the intimate lives of Nassau’s Liberated Africans. They were settled from captured slave ships – but after that – it is regrettably for the most Continue Reading
Liberated Africans changed the ethnic, social and economic landscape of New Providence. As they were settled, by the British, in greater and greater numbers, in Nassau, many excelled and became Continue Reading
