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1916 – When spreading fake news was against the law in the Bahama Islands

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One Hundred and Fifty: John Moultrie’s American Slaves Sent to the Bahamas in 1784

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TIME IN HISTORY 1492 A.D.

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

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White man parks Sidney Poitier’s car after black hotel porter REFUSED – Nassau 1964

There are some stories, in Bahamian history, which have come to epitomise what some have termed “black crab syndrome”. There are stories stretching back to the days of slavery. Stories Continue Reading

Posted On : December 11, 2023 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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Music as Identity: Should Bahamian Music Officially Be Called Goombay?

One can argue that independence, in 1973, had many goals to accomplish. Within that political exercise, negotiating sovereignty away from Britain to our own majority ruled Parliament, was also meant Continue Reading

Posted On : July 8, 2023 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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Freedom Park, Fox Hill Dedicated in 1967 Sits On Historical Cemetery

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

Posted On : February 20, 2022 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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The Many Hats of Stephen Dillet,… but was he also an angry Arsonist in 1825?

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

Posted On : February 7, 2022 Published By : The Bahamianologist
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The Hon. Lewis Kerr legitimises his mulatto slave daughter Eliza Ann 1826

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

Posted On : February 6, 2022 Published By : The Bahamianologist

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