The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
Bahamians have, not too surprisingly, put a lot of stock into the historical personality that was Stephen Dillet. The reasons for this are more than obvious. He became a political Continue Reading
The fate of mulatto children —the children of white slaveowners— was as precarious as any other slave. All depended on the sensibilities of the owners. Some slaveowners sold off their Continue Reading
How and why two German men, became runaway white slaves, in Nassau, in 1805, is not so strange as one might first think. There were slaves, indentured servants, apprentices, and Continue Reading
Life is ‘SOLITARY, POOR, NASTY, BRUTISH, AND SHORT’ so says philosopher Thomas Hobbes in 1651. In January 1837, an African named “Meaho,” wandering around Grant’s Town in search of food, Continue Reading
Being a parent, in 1800s Bahamas, was apparently as complicated as it is today. Strong-willed children—or as Bahamians like to say, ‘head-strong’ children— throughout all history, were apparently always annoying, Continue Reading
