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<span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br> | <span style="color:DarkViolet">'''"Emigration"''' means moving out of a country. '''"Immigration"''' means moving into a country. </span><br> | ||
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | ||
*The Bahama Islands were inhabited by the '''Lucayans''', a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making his first landfall in the 'New World' in 1492. Later, '''the Spanish shipped the native Lucayans to and enslaved them on Hispaniola''', after which the Bahama islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648. | |||
*The Bahama Islands were inhabited by the '''Lucayans''', a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making his first landfall in the 'New World' in 1492. Later, '''the Spanish shipped the native Lucayans to and enslaved them on Hispaniola''', after which the Bahama islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, | *In 1648, the first English settlers arrived on the islands. Known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleutheran_Adventurers '''Eleutherian Adventurers''']. They migrated from Bermuda seeking greater religious freedom. These English Puritans established the first permanent European settlement on an island which they named 'Eleuthera', Greek for 'freedom'. They later settled New Providence, naming it Sayle's Island. Life proved harder than envisaged however, and many chose to return to Bermuda. To survive, the remaining settlers salvaged goods from wrecks. | ||
*The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. | *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. '''African enslaved people and their descendants''' constituted the majority of the population from this period on. | *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. '''African enslaved people and their descendants''' constituted the majority of the population from this period on. | ||
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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> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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