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Jailor of Runaway Slaves Saw Opportunity To Make Money – He Opened School For Free Coloured Children Charging 8 shillings per month

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

Posted On : November 19, 2021 Published By : The Bahamianologist

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Bahamas Assembly Pays £36 To Stop Slave Compensation Claim For Negro Hanged Four Days After Emancipation 1835

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

Posted On : October 21, 2021 Published By : The Bahamianologist

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Governor John Gregory Dies After Catching Yellow Fever At Funeral Of Man Who Died From Yellow Fever – Nassau July 1853

Bahamas Governor John Gregory took ill with yellow fever on Monday. Got worse on Tuesday. Rallied on Wednesday. Declined on Thursday. Died on Friday. Buried with honours on Saturday 30th Continue Reading

Posted On : August 6, 2021 Published By : The Bahamianologist

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Pindling Planned Protest For Prince Philip’s First Visit to Bahamas April 1959

The news of the passing of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II on April 9, 2021, reminds The Bahamas of Continue Reading

Posted On : April 9, 2021 Published By : The Bahamianologist

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Englerston, Romanian born J. S. Engler’s Dream Subdivision 1925

Englerston, as a planned subdivision, was conceived of almost one hundred years ago, during a time when most of the island of New Providence was still pine forest and thick, Continue Reading

Posted On : March 18, 2021 Published By : The Bahamianologist