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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 the population from this period on. The slave trade was abolished by the British in 1807. Although slavery in The Bahamas was not abolished until 1834, The Bahamas became a haven of manumission for African slaves from outside the British West Indies in 1818. Africans liberated from illegal slave ships were resettled on the islands by the Royal Navy, while some North American slaves and Seminoles escaped to The Bahamas from Florida. Bahamians were even known to recognize the freedom of enslaved people carried by the ships of other nations that reached The Bahamas. Today, black Bahamians make up 90% of the population of 400,516. | 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 the population from this period on. The slave trade was abolished by the British in 1807. Although slavery in The Bahamas was not abolished until 1834, The Bahamas became a haven of manumission for African slaves from outside the British West Indies in 1818. Africans liberated from illegal slave ships were resettled on the islands by the Royal Navy, while some North American slaves and Seminoles escaped to The Bahamas from Florida. Bahamians were even known to recognize the freedom of enslaved people carried by the ships of other nations that reached The Bahamas. Today, black Bahamians make up 90% of the population of 400,516. | ||
The country gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1973, led by Sir Lynden O. Pindling. It shares its monarchy with the other Commonwealth realms. The Bahamas has the fourteenth-largest gross domestic product per capita in the Americas. Its economy is based on tourism and offshore finance. Though the Bahamas is in the Lucayan Archipelago and not on the Caribbean Sea, it is often considered part of the wider Caribbean region. The Bahamas | The country gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1973, led by Sir Lynden O. Pindling. It shares its monarchy with the other Commonwealth realms. The Bahamas has the fourteenth-largest gross domestic product per capita in the Americas. Its economy is based on tourism and offshore finance. Though the Bahamas is in the Lucayan Archipelago and not on the Caribbean Sea, it is often considered part of the wider Caribbean region. | ||
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The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and 88% of its population. The archipelagic country has over 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean. It is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau, which is on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.
The Bahama islands were inhabited by the Arawak and Lucayans, an Arawakan-speaking Taíno branch, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making his first landfall in the "New World" in 1492 when he landed on the island of San Salvador. Later, the Spanish shipped the native Lucayans to Hispaniola and enslaved them there, after which the Bahama islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, nearly all native Bahamians having been forcibly removed for enslavement or having died of diseases that Europeans brought with them from Europe. In 1649, English colonists from Bermuda, known as the Eleutheran Adventurers, settled on the island of Eleuthera.
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 the population from this period on. The slave trade was abolished by the British in 1807. Although slavery in The Bahamas was not abolished until 1834, The Bahamas became a haven of manumission for African slaves from outside the British West Indies in 1818. Africans liberated from illegal slave ships were resettled on the islands by the Royal Navy, while some North American slaves and Seminoles escaped to The Bahamas from Florida. Bahamians were even known to recognize the freedom of enslaved people carried by the ships of other nations that reached The Bahamas. Today, black Bahamians make up 90% of the population of 400,516.
The country gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1973, led by Sir Lynden O. Pindling. It shares its monarchy with the other Commonwealth realms. The Bahamas has the fourteenth-largest gross domestic product per capita in the Americas. Its economy is based on tourism and offshore finance. Though the Bahamas is in the Lucayan Archipelago and not on the Caribbean Sea, it is often considered part of the wider Caribbean region.
Spanking and Spanking Art in The_Bahamas
In the 20th century, school corporal punishment fell out of fashion and was gradually banned in many countries, a trend that continues until the present day.
As of May 2008, The Bahamas permits corporal punishment in schools.
( We have no further information from SAOTK as of Oct, 2024 )
Judicial corporal punishment in The Bahamas
Judicial corporal punishment in this former British colony in the Caribbean was abolished in 1984 and reintroduced in 1991. It takes two forms: the cat-o'-nine-tails applied to the bare back and the tamarind rod to the bare buttocks. The Privy Council in London, to which the country subscribes as its court of last resort, upheld flogging in 2002 as not contrary to the constitution of The Bahamas
- (see Pinder v. The Queen in External Links)
Calls for the "return" of JCP in 2002 and again in 2005 suggest that the flogging provision was regarded locally as having fallen into disuse.
However, new flogging sentences were handed down in October 2006 and May 2007. The second of these, involving the cat-o'-nine tails, was thrown out by the appeal court in February 2008.
There was some confusion over the Oct 2006 case: the sentence was initially reported as being of a flogging with the cat, but it later turned out that it was to be eight strokes with the tamarind rod (which, as far as can be ascertained, is a bundle of rods like the Isle of Man birch). Half of this punishment was to be administered at the beginning of the prison sentence and the rest at the end. It has since been revealed that the first four strokes were indeed administered in late 2008.
Meanwhile, though, the Attorney-General announced in December 2008 that the law permitting JCP would be repealed in the next legislative term. This appears to have been a policy U-turn following a change of government in 2007. However, no such repeal had been reported as of December 2018.[Source 1]
Prostitution in The_Bahamas
- Prostitution in The_Bahamas ↗ on Wikipedia
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External links
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:The_Bahamas ]
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