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*Today '''Afro-Bahamians''' make up 90% of the population of 332,634. | *Today '''Afro-Bahamians''' make up 90% of the population of 332,634. | ||
*From 1940-1966, contract agricultural laborers recruited to work in Florida and the adjacent states.<ref>"The Bahamas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas, accessed 14 July 2021.</ref> | *From 1940-1966, contract agricultural laborers recruited to work in Florida and the adjacent states.<ref>"The Bahamas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas, accessed 14 July 2021.</ref> | ||
==Emigrations From the Bahamas== | |||
*There are an estimated 56,498 people of Bahamian ancestry living in the US as of 2015. | |||
*Bahamians began visiting the Florida Keys in the 18th century to salvage wrecked ships, fish, catch turtles and log tropical hardwood trees. After 1825, '''Bahamian wreckers''' began moving to Key West in large numbers. | |||
*Bahamians were among the first West Indians to immigrate to the mainland US in the late nineteenth century. Many went to Florida to work in agriculture or to Key West to labor in fishing, sponging, and turtling. Two main factors that contributed to increased Bahamian migration were the poor economic climate and opportunities in the Bahamas, as well as the short distance from the Bahamas to Miami. | |||
*Southern Florida developed Bahamian enclaves in certain cities including '''Lemon City, Coconut Grove, and Cutler'''. | |||
*Between 1900 and 1920, between ten and twelve thousand Bahamians moved to Florida, mostly to do agricultural labor, often on a '''seasonal basis'''. *Starting in 1943, Bahamanian workers came to Florida under the '''British West Indian (BWI) Temporary Labor Program'''. | |||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||