The Bahamas. Revisited. Re-examined. Re-explained
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
Being a parent, in 1800s Bahamas, was apparently as complicated as it is today. Strong-willed children—or as Bahamians like to say, ‘head-strong’ children— throughout all history, were apparently always annoying, Continue Reading
Nancy Gambier died a free black woman. She certainly earned it. Nancy was wet nurse and nanny to James, Lord Gambier of New Providence. James, Lord Gambier was born in Continue Reading
That same Prospect Ridge. That small hill connecting West Bay Street to John F Kennedy Drive, in Nassau, was once a thriving plantation, worked by slaves. During slavery, it was Continue Reading
