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  2. Bahamians - Wikipedia

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    Bahamians / b ə ˈ h eɪ m i ən z / are people originating or having roots from The Commonwealth of The Bahamas. One can also become a Bahamian by acquiring citizenship. One can also become a Bahamian by acquiring citizenship.

  3. The Bahamas - Wikipedia

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    The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American Revolutionary War, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists to the Bahamas; they took enslaved people with them and established plantations on land grants. Enslaved Africans and their descendants constituted the majority of ...

  4. Demographics of the Bahamas - Wikipedia

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    Bahamas population pyramid in 2020. This is a demography of the population of the Bahamas including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

  5. History of the Bahamas - Wikipedia

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    The earliest arrival of people in the islands now known as the Bahamas was in the first millennium AD. The first inhabitants of the islands were the Lucayans, an Arawakan language-speaking Taino people, who arrived between about 500 and 800 AD from other islands of the Caribbean.

  6. List of Bahamians - Wikipedia

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    Flag of the Bahamas This is a list of Bahamians , who are identified with The Bahamas through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

  7. Andros, The Bahamas - Wikipedia

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    A 1520 expedition by the Spanish discovered only 11 people in The Bahamas; the Lucayans were effectively eradicated from these islands. The islands of the Bahamas, including Andros Island, remained uninhabited thereafter for approximately 130 years. [7] The Bahamas subsequently passed back and forth between Spanish and British rule for 150 years.

  8. Afro-Bahamians - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Category:Bahamian people - Wikipedia

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    Colony of the Bahamas people (6 C, 2 P) * Lists of Bahamian people (2 C, 2 P) + Bahamian LGBTQ people (4 P) Bahamian men (2 C) Bahamian women (5 C) C. Bahamian ...