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The owner of one of the largest and most profitable slave plantations in Eleuthera was William Cargill. He was a prominent figure in the Bahamas during the 18th century and played a significant role in the slave trade.
the Bahamas is divided into islands
The slave trade in the Bahamas began in the late 1600s when the British brought enslaved Africans to work on plantations. The peak period of slave importation occurred in the 18th century during the heyday of the British colonial sugar industry in the Caribbean.
There are 23 islands in the Bahamas that are inhabited. This leaves about 677 more islands and cays that are not inhabited.
Portugal's creation of sugar plantations on Atlantic coastal islands started in the 1400's with sugar colonies in West Africa. They then started to develop sugar plantations on what is now Brazil's coast line. Some of the islands in the Caribbean were then assessed as to their value in growing sugar.
The Bahamas have roughly 700 islands!
slave plantations started in the first 13 colonies...it started in the years of1820 thru 1860
European countries such as Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and England were responsible for bringing African slaves to work on sugar plantations in the Caribbean islands during the Atlantic slave trade.
The Berry Islands are a chain of islands in the Bahamas. Nassau is the capital city of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.
It is its own chain of islands, an archipelago named The Bahamas.
The Portuguese had sugar plantations in Madeira and Sao Tome islands.
The Bahamas in the Caribbean region are composed of a group of islands known as Abaco. The Abaco is the outlying islands of the Bahamas.