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There was also an additional 9,560 people brought directly from Africa to the Bahamas from 1788 - 1807. 1807 was when the British abolished the slave trade. [6] Throughout the 19th century, close to 7000 Africans were resettled in the Bahamas after being freed from slave ships by the Royal Navy, which intercepted the trade, in the Bahamian islands.
Such freed Africans entered a system of apprenticeship or indentured servitude in The Bahamas. Later, many of these freed Africans and their offspring migrated to the Out Islands, including Andros, resulting in an indigenous culture that is closer to those in West Africa than most other black cultures in the Western Hemisphere. [12]
Like African Americans, many also have European and Native American ancestry. Caribbean societies continue to struggle with racial issues. The Bahamas during the American Civil War prospered as a base for Confederate blockade-running, bringing in cotton to be shipped to the mills of England and running out arms and munitions.
Bahamian people of African descent (1 C) Pages in category "African diaspora in the Bahamas" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The first Africans to arrive to the Bahamas were freed slaves from Bermuda; they arrived with the Eleutheran Adventurers looking for new lives. [129] The Haitian community in the Bahamas is also largely of African descent and numbers about 80,000. Due to an extremely high immigration of Haitians to the Bahamas, the Bahamian government started ...
The first known Black author from the Bahamas was a John Boyd who wrote a book of poetry called "The Vision and Other Poems in Blank Verse," published in 1834. The population of the Bahamas is 95% Christian, of various denominations, primarily Methodist, Baptist, Anglican and Catholic. There are more churches per capita than in any other country.
Lynden Oscar Pindling, first Prime Minister of the Bahamas. Joseph Robert Love, important pan-African leader of the 19th and 20th century who influenced Marcus Garvey; Allan Glaisyer Minns, first black British mayor; Bert Williams, first black lead actor on Broadway
Afro-Caribbean or African Caribbean people are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.The majority of the modern Afro-Caribbean people descend from the Africans (primarily from West and Central Africa) taken as slaves to colonial Caribbean via the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries to work primarily on various sugar plantations and in ...