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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN times=""
new=""><FONT color=#000000>W1NA, N5NHJ, I8QLS, I8ULL will be active
from<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>Bahamas<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG>until 3 March 2014
as<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>C6ANA</STRONG><BR>They
will be active on HF Bands<BR>QSL via N5NHJ<SPAN
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<P>During proprietary rule, the Bahamas became a haven for pirates,
including the infamous Blackbeard. To restore orderly government, Britain
made the Bahamas a crown colony in 1718 under the royal governorship of
Woodes Rogers. After a difficult struggle, he succeeded in suppressing
piracy. In 1720, Rogers led local militia to drive off a Spanish
attack.</P>
<P>During the American War of Independence, the islands were a target for
American naval forces under the command of Commodore Ezekial Hopkins. US
Marines occupied the capital of Nassau for a fortnight.</P>
<P>In 1782, following the British defeat at Yorktown, a Spanish fleet
appeared off the coast of Nassau, and the city surrendered without a
fight. Spain returned possession of the Bahamas to Britain the following
year, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris.</P>
<P>After American independence, the British resettled some 7,300 Loyalists
and their slaves in the Bahamas from New York, Florida, and the Carolinas,
to help compensate them for losses. These Loyalists established
plantations on several islands and became a political force in the
capital. European Americans were outnumbered by the African-American
slaves they brought with them, and ethnic Europeans remained a minority in
the territory.</P>
<P>In 1807, the British abolished the slave trade. During the following
decades, they resettled thousands of Africans liberated from slave ships
by the Royal Navy, which intercepted the trade, in the Bahamian islands.
Slavery was finally abolished in the British Empire on 1 August 1834.</P>
<P>In the 1820s, hundreds of American slaves and Black Seminoles escaped
from Cape Florida to the Bahamas, settling mostly on northwest Andros
Island, where they developed the village of Red Bays. From eyewitness
accounts, 300 escaped in a mass flight in 1823, aided by Bahamians in 27
sloops, with others using canoes for the journey. This was commemorated in
2004 by a large sign at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park. Some of their
descendants continue Black Seminole traditions in basketmaking and grave
marking.</P>
<P>The United States' National Park Service, which administers the
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, is working with the
African Bahamanian Museum and Research Center (ABAC) In Nassau on
development to identify Red Bays as a site related to American slaves'
search for freedom. The museum has researched and documented the Black
Seminoles' escape from southern Florida. It plans to develop interpretive
programs at historical sites in Red Bay associated with the period of
their settlement in the Bahamas.</P>
<P>In 1818, the Home Office in London had ruled that "any slave brought to
the Bahamas from outside the British West Indies would be manumitted."
This led to a total of nearly 300 slaves owned by U.S. nationals being
freed from 1830 to 1835.The American slave ships<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Comet</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Encomium,</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>used in its domestic coastwise
slave trade, had wrecked off Abaco Island in December 1830 and February
1834, respectively. When wreckers took the masters, passengers and slaves
into Nassau, customs officers seized the slaves and British colonial
officials freed them, over the protests of the Americans. There were 165
slaves on the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Comet</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>and 48 on the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Encomium.</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Britain paid an indemnity to the
US in those two cases, but only after lengthy delay.</P>
<P>British colonial officials also freed 78 American slaves from the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Enterprise</I>, which went
into Bermuda in 1835; and 38 from the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Hermosa</I>, which wrecked off
Abaco island in 1840, after abolition was effective in August 1834.The
most notable case was that of the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Creole</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>in 1841, the result of a slave
revolt whose leaders ordered the American brig to Nassau. It was carrying
135 slaves from Virginia destined for sale in New Orleans. The Bahamian
officials freed the 128 slaves who chose to stay in the islands. The<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Creole</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>case has been described as the
"most successful slave revolt in US history".</P>
<P>These incidents, in which a total of 447 slaves belonging to American
nationals were freed by 1842, increased tension between the United States
and Great Britain, although they had been cooperating in patrols to
suppress the international slave trade. Worried about the stability of its
domestic slave trade and its value, the US argued that Britain should not
treat its domestic ships that came to its colonial ports under duress, as
part of the international trade. The US worried that the success of the
Creole's slaves in gaining freedom would encourage more slave revolts on
merchant ships.<BR><BR><A
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas</A><BR></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>