The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
Free people of colour, or the mixed raced, in Nassau, were in desperate need of schooling for their children. So desperate in fact, that they would send their children to Continue Reading
How do you get people, generations in fact, to believe something that is patently untrue. A lie. A bold faced, untruth of such proportions that, it scarcely seems reasonable, anyone Continue Reading
By March 1833, the Bahamas Assembly, who unequivocally loathed Governor, Sir James Carmichael Smyth, had succeeded in having his governorship revoked. Carmichael Smyth was an abolitionist, sent by the British, Continue Reading
Castletown Roberts, a slave, was hung on August 5th, 1834. It was a Tuesday. Castletown was hung, from the top terrace level of the Nassau prison, what is now the Continue Reading
Mary Ann was a slave on the island of Exuma. She was the property of Henderson Ferguson, who became a Member of the Assembly for Exuma, in 1819. In March Continue Reading
