The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
Where Freedom Park in Fox Hill, Nassau, sits today, there once was a historically significant burial place. In 1967, new history was made of this area where, it can surely Continue Reading
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
