The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
Savaletta Lewis Hanna died of a stroke on 30th December 1953. She was 80 years old. Savaletta would have been born in 1873 – before electricity, the telephone, even before Continue Reading
Long before the colonial administrative system for slave registration was introduced, there was quite an elaborate information network for the employment of excess slave labour, as well as, reporting absentee Continue Reading
In 1808, three women, Flora, Maria and Mackay, all slaves, offer an altogether common picture surrounding the institution of slavery in The Bahamas. Strange dichotomies existed. Beaten, sold, branded, as Continue Reading
“The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s the only thing that lasts.” Gerald O’Hara, Gone With The 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
