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In 1992, the Pompey Museum of Slavery and Emancipation, named after "a courageous slave, Pompey, who lived on the Rolle Plantation on Steventon, Exuma", was established at the former Vendue House marketplace at Bay Street, Nassau. [5]
Bahamas Historical Society Museum; National Art Gallery of The Bahamas; Nassau Public Library and Museum; San Damon Museum; Pompey Museum of Slavery & Emancipation; Balcony House Museum; Fort Charlotte; Heritage Museum of the Bahamas; Junkanoo World Museum & Arts Centre; Pirates of Nassau
A history of the Bahamian people: From the ending of slavery to the twenty-first century (2nd ed. University of Georgia Press, 2000). Granberry, Julius and Gary S. Vescelius. (2004) Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles. The University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-5123-X; Johnson, Howard. (1996) The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783 ...
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.
International Slavery Museum, at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool [13] Wilberforce House, part of the Museums Quarter of Kingston-upon-Hull [14] The Wake by Khaleb Brooks in London [15] (planned) The gravestone of 'Scipio Africanus' in Bristol [16] [17] Plaques for people compensated after the abolition of slavery in Bristol [18]
“We need to know our history and be inspired and motivated by it.” Little Bahamas of Coconut Grove extends north to Bird Avenue and U.S. 1 and south to Franklin Avenue, according to the ...
The archive features information, artifacts and relics from Jamaica, The Bahamas, Haiti, Barbados, Cuba, Trinidad, Honduras, Guyana, Suriname, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other Caribbean countries. It is organized into four areas which showcase the history of the region, from pre-colonial times through slavery and emancipation.
That is a reason why Allison, a veteran African American history teacher at Granby High, last month took his students to this historic site, parts of which former President Barack Obama declared a ...