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Merchants and Government Conspire To Create Food Import Dependency 1915

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The Bahamian Member of Parliament who was an MP for only six short weeks 1962

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2,000 Illegal Bahamian Immigrants Hunted By U.S. Federal Agents 1935

Shockwaves from the catastrophe created by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, reverberated like an economic tsunami, through the Bahamas. After the high profit Prohibition era (1920-1933), which made millionaires Continue Reading

Posted On : January 27, 2019 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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“Wasn’t Me. One White Man Did It” Said Negro Church Deacon Convicted Of Extortion Of The Widow of Sir Harry Oakes 1950

In the Bahamas, prior to 1950, the word extortion was probably used as much as the word Jupiter. Few knew what extortion, or even what Jupiter meant for that matter. Continue Reading

Posted On : December 3, 2018 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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Slavery Across The British West Indies (part 3) Wife Jealous of the Bed Wench Jamaica 1786

It was in 1655, under the rule of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, that the British took Jamaica from the Spanish. It wasn’t even a fair fight. Around 7,000 English Continue Reading

Posted On : October 20, 2018 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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Spree Killer Murders 6 People, Wounds 6, Then Kills Himself Nassau 1964

On Wednesday, May 20th., 1964, around 7:00 p.m. or so in the evening, somewhere in Over-the-Hill, Nassau, Rueben Rolle, a thirty-year old negro carpenter, was loading his shotgun. Over-the-Hill, characterised Continue Reading

Posted On : October 7, 2018 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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Slavery Across the British West Indies (part 2) Two Young Boys Get One Hundred Lashes Each Over A Pair of Stockings – Nevis 1817

During slavery, there was one singular, openly declared, and lawfully protected rule in the West Indies. It was that the relationship between master and slave, as owner was to property, Continue Reading

Posted On : September 30, 2018 Published By : The Bahamianologist

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