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671:. From this time the pirates increasingly made Nassau, the Bahamian capital founded in 1694, their base. The governors appointed by the Proprietors usually made a show of suppressing the pirates, but most were accused of dealing with them. By 1701 England was at war with France and Spain. In 1703, and again in 1706, combined French-Spanish fleets
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disease, and the Navy ships left for other assignments. Rogers sent four of his ships to Havana to assure the
Spanish governor that he was suppressing piracy and to trade for supplies. The crews of ex-pirates and men who had come with Rogers all turned to piracy. The ex-pirate Benjamin Hornigold later caught ten men at
842:" Rackham. Vane never returned to the Bahamas; he was eventually caught, convicted and executed in Jamaica. After nearly being captured by Jamaican privateers, and hearing that the king had extended the deadline for pardons for piracy, Rackham and his crew returned to Nassau to surrender to Woodes Rogers.
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Woodes Rogers arrived in Nassau in late July 1718, with his own 460-ton warship, three ships belonging to his company, and an escort of three ships of the Royal Navy. Vane's ship was trapped in Nassau harbor. His crew set that ship on fire, sending it towards Rogers' ships, and escaped in the ensuing
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who had gone into exile from the newly established United States. The sparse population of the
Bahamas tripled within a few years. The Loyalists developed cotton as a commodity crop, but it dwindled from insect damage and soil exhaustion. In addition to slaves they brought with them, the planters'
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King George. Still others simply identified as rebels, or thought they were better off as pirates than trying to earn an honest living. When a Royal Navy ship brought official word to Nassau of the pardon offer, many pirates planned to accept. Soon, however, the recalcitrant parties gained the upper
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as the economy struggles to recover from its deepest crash since at least 1971. Progressive
Liberal Party (PLP) won 32 of the 39 seats in the House of Assembly. Free National Movement (FNM), led by Minnis, took the remaining seats. On 17 September 2021, the leader of the Progressive Liberal Party
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which praised Rogers' efforts to suppress piracy in the
Bahamas, his fortunes began to improve. The king awarded him a pension, retroactive to 1721. In 1728 Rogers was appointed Governor of the Bahamas for a second term. He dissolved the colony's assembly when it would not approve taxes to repair
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Rogers controlled Nassau, but
Charles Vane was loose and threatening to drive the governor and his forces out. Learning that the King of Spain wanted to expel English from the islands, Rogers worked to improve the defenses of Nassau. He lost nearly 100 men of the new forces due to an unidentified
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Bahamas held little interest to the Spanish except as a source of slave labor. Nearly the entire population of Lucayan (almost 40,000 people total) were transported to other islands as laborers over the next 30 years. When the Spanish decided to remove the remaining Lucayans to Hispaniola in
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Bahamas, English privateers operated from Nassau as their base, in what has been called a "privateers' republic", which lasted for eleven years. The raiders attacked French and Spanish ships, while French and Spanish forces burned Nassau several times. The
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The Bahamians soon came into conflict with the Spanish over the salvaging of wrecks. The Bahamian wreckers drove the Spanish away from their wrecked ships, and attacked Spanish salvagers, seizing goods the Spanish had already recovered from the wrecks. When the Spanish raided the Bahamas, the
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in June 1942, when there was a "full-scale riot," even though he blamed the trouble on "mischief makers β communists" and "men of Central European Jewish descent, who had secured jobs as a pretext for obtaining a deferment of draft". The Duke resigned the post on 16 March 1945.
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eventually convinced him to tackle the pirates' nest in the Bahamas, instead. Rogers and others formed a company to fund the venture. They persuaded the Proprietors of Carolina to surrender the government of the Bahamas to the king, while retaining title to the land. In 1717
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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. None of these provided any lasting prosperity to the islands, nor did attempts to grow different kinds of crops for export.
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881:. Rogers returned to Britain in 1722 to plead for repayment of the money he had borrowed to build up Nassau, only to find he had been replaced as governor. He was sent to debtors' prison, although his creditors later absolved his debts, gaining him release.
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1520, they could find only eleven. The islands remained abandoned and depopulated for 130 years afterwards. With no gold to be found, and the population removed, the Spanish effectively abandoned the Bahamas. They retained titular claims to them until the
1230:, and primarily blacks, who comprised the large majority, existed well into the 1940s and in some societies beyond. Like African Americans, many also have European and Native American ancestry. Caribbean societies continue to struggle with racial issues.
310:(in the central Bahamas). William Keegan argues that the most likely route was from Hispaniola or Cuba to Great Inagua. Granberry and Vescelius argue for two migrations, from Hispaniola to the Turks and Caicos Islands, and from Cuba to Great Inagua.
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Most of the current inhabitants in the islands are descended from the slaves brought to work on the Loyalist plantations. In addition, thousands of captive Africans, who were liberated from foreign slave ships by the British navy after the
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ended in 1714, but some privateers were slow to get the news, or reluctant to accept it, and slipped into piracy. One estimate puts at least 1,000 pirates in the Bahamas in 1713, outnumbering the 200 families of more permanent settlers.
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organisations such as the Imperial Order of the Daughters of Empire and the Bahamas Red Cross Guild began collecting money, food and clothing for soldiers and civilians in Europe. "The Gallant Thirty" Bahamians set out to join the
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confusion in a smaller ship they had seized from another pirate. The remaining population welcomed Rogers; they comprised about 200 settlers and 500 to 700 pirates who wanted to receive pardons, most prominently
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In the 1830s and 1840s, tensions rose between Britain and the United States after American merchant ships, part of the coastwise slave trade, put into Nassau or were wrecked on its reefs. These included the
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When Britain and Spain went to war again in 1719, many of the ex-pirates were commissioned by the British government as privateers. A Spanish invasion fleet set out for the Bahamas, but was diverted to
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Word of the appointment of a new governor and of the offer of pardons reached Nassau ahead of Rogers and his forces. Some of the pirates were willing to accept a pardon and retire from piracy.
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With emancipation, Caribbean societies inherited a rigid racial stratification that was reinforced by the unequal distribution of wealth and power. The three-tier race structure, of whites,
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The "privateers' republic" in Nassau became a "pirates' republic". At least 20 pirate captains used Nassau or other places in the Bahamas as a home port during this period, including
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In April 1942 the United Kingdom asked Canada to provide military support in Nassau, in part to provide protection services to H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor. The No. 33 company of the
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Smith, Andrew. 2009. "Thomas Bassett Macaulay and the Bahamas: Racism, Business and Canadian Sub-imperialism". The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 37, no. 1: 29-50.
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Vane attacked several small settlements in the Bahamas but, after he refused to attack a stronger French frigate, he was deposed for cowardice and replaced as captain by "
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and Virginia came there to exchange needed supplies for pirate plunder. Piracy provoked frequent and brutal but ineffective retaliatory attacks by the French and Spanish.
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in North America. He also reported that over 2300 sumptuous houses were built. In 1768 Governor William Shirley filled in mosquito-breeding swamps and extended Nassau.
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when it was seized by the French. Rogers continued to improve the defenses of Nassau, spending his personal fortune and going heavily into debt to do so. In 1720, the
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to escape harassment from the pirates. On the other hand, residents of Harbor Island were happy to serve as middlemen for the pirates, as merchants from
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by the Lucayan, and San Salvador by the Spanish. The identity of the first American landfall by Columbus remains controversial, but many authors accept
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in his crew, came to prominence at this time. Vane worked to organise resistance to the anticipated arrival of Royal authority, even appealing to
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The College of the Bahamas was founded in 1974 and provided the nation's higher or tertiary education. The college was chartered in 2016 as the
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on New Providence and Eleuthera, after which they were largely abandoned. New Providence was settled a second time in 1686 by colonists from
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Martin, Nona P., and Virgil Henry Storr. "Demystifying Bay Street: Black Tuesday and the radicalization of Bahamian politics in the 1960s."
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in 1751. Settled in the mid-1600s, the island quickly became the centre of population and commerce in the Bahamas.
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and Christopher Winter, sailed off to find British authorities to confirm their acceptance of the amnesty.
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1732:. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. p. 64.
492:, the forests have not regrown and have not been replanted.
266:. The earliest permanent European settlement was in 1648 on
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The earliest arrival of people in the islands now known as
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Karimi, Faith; Thornton, Chandler (12 September 2019).
1250:. Although the movement enjoyed the support of many in
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who surrendered to a British governor within one year.
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Islanders in the Sun: A History of the Bahamian People
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appointed Rogers governor of the Bahamas and issued a
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2429:The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783β1933.
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1384:Bahamians achieved self-government in 1964, with
1073:, were resettled as free persons in the Bahamas.
785:hand, eventually forcing the Navy ship to leave.
2413:Granberry, Julius and Gary S. Vescelius. (2004)
2044:. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 364.
659:), with gold and silver, and by leaving him the
562:In 1666 other colonists from Bermuda settled on
250:Recorded history began on 12 October 1492, when
2146:, retrieved 1 May 2010 (Subscription required)
2130:(September 2004; online edition January 2008)
1338:. The Canadian garrison left Nassau in 1946.
889:Nassau's defenses. He died in Nassau in 1732.
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1517:The Bahamas achieved full independence as a
1071:abolition of the British slave trade in 1807
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2174:National Defence and the Canadian Forces
2090:King Edward VIII: The official biography
2027:The Dutchess of Windsor: The Secret Life
1728:Craton, Michael; Saunders, Gail (2000).
2356:McLeod, Sheri-Kae (17 September 2021).
2242:Fitz-Gibbon, Jorge (5 September 2019).
2222:"Encyclopedia Britannica β The Bahamas"
2136:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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2406:Craton, Michael, and Gail Saunders.
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2562:The Bahamas History & Culture
2417:The University of Alabama Press.
2268:Stelloh, Tim (9 September 2019).
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1838:Woodard:236-40, 245-47, 259-61
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2665:Capture of the Bahamas (1782)
2445:University Press of Florida.
2431:University Press of Florida.
2092:. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
1670:Granberry and Vescelius:80-86
1608:Prime Minister of the Bahamas
1559:In the 2002 Bahamian general
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3110:British Overseas Territories
2076:Bloch, pp. 154β159, 230β233.
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1884:Woodard:268-72, 286, 301-04
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2025:Higham, Charles (1988).
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2492:8.2 (2002): 237-253.
2382:MacMillan Caribbean.
2378:Albury, Paul. (1975)
2118:Ziegler, pp. 471β472.
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2476:Rulers.org β Bahamas
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