The Bahamus

The Bahamus The Bahamas / is an English-speaking country consisting of 29 islands, 661 low-lying islands and 2,387 islands. The islands are located in the Atlantic Ocean, north of Cuba, Hispaniola, northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States of America The indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas are the Araco Taino. The islands were also the first foothold for Columbus in the New World in 1492. Although the Spaniards never colonized the colony, they moved the original inhabitants of the island to the island of Hispaniola as slaves. Most of the islands were deserted between (1513-1650) when British colonists settled in Eleuthera Island The Bahamas became a crown colony in 1718 as the British curbed piracy. After the American War of Independence, thousands of British loyalists and enslaved Africans moved to the Bahamas and set up a farm economy. The slave trade was abolished in the British Empire in 1807 as many African surviv...