The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
William Campbell Adderley (1846-1892) MHA for City District (1889 until sudden death 1892) and Cleophas Adderley (elected 1967 by-election and 1968 General Election) were not related, as far as can Continue Reading
In 1899, Arthur E. Leslie, a coloured man, was a music and mathematics teacher in Savannah Sound, Eleuthera. Leslie was an accomplished pianist and poet. By 1905, he was appointed Continue Reading
The Bahamian Progressive League began as a political ideal, a community collective, and what would be referred to today, as a think tank. Comprised of Nassau’s negro intellectual elite – 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
In January 1903, Mrs. Edith Bertram became the first woman, in the history of the Bahama Islands, to be appointed to a Public Board. Mrs. Bertram was appointed Commissioner of Continue Reading
