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At first the Lucayans sold for no more than four gold pesos in Hispaniola, but when it was realized that the Lucayans were practiced at diving for conchs, the price rose to 100 to 150 gold pesos and the Lucayans were sent to the Isle of Cubagua as pearl divers. Within two years the southern Bahamas were largely depopulated.
The Spanish may have carried away as many as 40,000 Lucayans by 1513. 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 Abaco Islands were first inhabited by the Lucayans, who called the Abaco Islands Lucayoneque, meaning "the people’s distant waters". [5] The first European settlers of the islands were Loyalists fleeing the American War of Independence who arrived in 1783, as was also the Cat Island case. These original Loyalist settlers made a modest ...
They were primarily interested in uncovering the slave quarters, home to as many as 67 slaves. They also found evidence of pre-Loyalist inhabitation by the Lucayans and during the Conch Period. In 2000, [1] there were plans to bulldoze and develop the site into a gated community with a golf course. This idea was met with strong opposition from ...
November exports of Italian wine to the U.S. reached a record high in the same month Donald Trump secured his return to the Oval Office.
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Lucayans, Greater Antilles and Bahamas 700 AD–1500 AD [2] – group encountered by Columbus Nepoya and Suppoya , Trinidad [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Igneri , Dominica 500 AD, St. Croix 650 AD, Puerto Rico 1000 AD [ 2 ]