The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
Scilla, was a 10-year-old slave girl, in New Providence, in 1822. She had been sold off from the estate of one Henry Johnson then deceased. Scilla was bought by merchant Continue Reading
James Armbrister was the Slave Registrar for the Bahama Islands. He signed off, providing the official seal, on the total number of slaves, in the islands. In 1819 the Office Continue Reading
Black slaveowners remains a quarrelsome subject. A number of free blacks and free coloureds, in the Bahamas, owned slaves. And some sold slaves as well. Negroes from Africa, labelled as Continue Reading
Substantial crown land grants, given to the Loyalists, an assortment of British settlers, and to a miscellaneous hodgepodge of opportunist supporters of the English monarchy, were nothing short of staggering. Continue Reading
The Curry surname, in the Bahamas, came from Scotland. According to a 1962 research paper entitled The American Loyalists in the Bahamas: Who They Were, written by Thelma Peters, it Continue Reading
