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posted by [personal profile] elanya at 01:24pm on 05/03/2009 under , ,
Reading for Atlantic History, Morgan and Horn on Migrations...

And it occurs to me that it is very significant that the Bahamas were not settled from Europe - settlers (white and exiled free blacks) came from Bermuda, and then they came from the Carolinas ant Jamaica, and other Colonial locations. Occasionally people came over, especially government people (most of the governors) from England. And Rogers brought his German palatines -but they all died. Some slaves, who were few enough in the early period, came from Africa, certainly - check Craton and Saunders for references. I am fairly certain about this but I should double check.

I'm not sure what all this mean, but it seems that it is something worth thinking about - what are the implications, in terms of the relationships of the colony to the home government, and the tensions between locals and the colonial government in its various forms?
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posted by [identity profile] rumor-esq.livejournal.com at 07:26pm on 05/03/2009
Very interesting fact! I have to expect that the absence of a direct colonial populationing* would produce a markedly distinct government and socio-cultural development from other caribbean islands.

* My attempt to make it clear that I mean the act of populating the locale.
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posted by [identity profile] astatine210.livejournal.com at 07:39pm on 05/03/2009
I think you mean "co-ordinated colonisation" instead of "a direct colonial populationing". But maybe I'm just being picky :)
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posted by [identity profile] rumor-esq.livejournal.com at 07:40pm on 05/03/2009
Yeah, probably. I see what you mean.
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 08:17pm on 05/03/2009
It isn't *unique* certainly - the Carolinas were settled in a similar fashion, and they were also proprietary.... but I think the demographics were different there. The Carolinas were largely (initially) settled by plantations owners and their slaves, where as in the Bahamas it was a small core of religious dissidents, followed by (essentially) pirates.
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