| If you are looking for tranquil peace the
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| | plantations until 1834, when Britain
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| Bahamas is the right option for you. Most
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| | abolished slavery in all its territories.
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| of the Bahamian population is black at
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| | Most white residents of are descendants
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| about 85% and the next largest population
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| | of the first English settlers, who
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| group are whites at 12%. Other minorities
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| | emigrated from Bermuda in 1647 to gain
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| include Hispanics and Asians at 3%. Many
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| | religious freedom. Some are also related
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| Bahamian whites are concentrated on
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| | to the Loyalists who fled the southern
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| Harbour Island, Abaco Island, Spanish
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| | United States during the American
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| Wells, Harbour Island, Montagu bay, and
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| | Revolution and built enormous plantations
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| the Long Islands district of New
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| | here.Religion is an important and
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| Providence. There are also a significant
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| | integral part of Bahamian life. Even the
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| number of noncitizen white expatriates
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| | tiniest village has a church, sometimes
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| from Europe and the United States.The
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| | two. The people's religious ardor and
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| Commonwealth of the Bahamas is an
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| | high regard for education are evidence of
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| independent English-speaking nation in
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| | their Puritan heritage, derived from the
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| the West Indies. An archipelago of 700
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| | Eleutheran Adventurers. Music is also
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| islands and cays (which are small
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| | very popular and is in the very bones of
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| islands), the Bahamas is located in the
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| | the people. Caribbean Calypso, African
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| Atlantic Ocean, the United States and
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| | rhythms, English folk songs and the
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| east of Florida, north of Cuba and the
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| | uniquely Bahamian Goombay beat echo in
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| Caribbean, and northwest of the British
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| | the air.Weddings and funerals in The
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| dependency of the Turks and Caicos
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| | Bahamas are especially important social
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| Islands.Documented Bahamian history
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| | events. People begin celebrating a
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| begins with the words, "Baja Mar," the
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| | marriage weeks before the official
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| name the Spanish bestowed on the islands.
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| | ceremony begins, and the passing of loved
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| This term is misleading, however; it
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| | ones is commemorated by parties long
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| means "shallow sea," but the islands are
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| | after they are gone.Anyone in search of
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| really mountain plateaus that emerged
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| | the perfect beach might very well start
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| from the Atlantic hundreds of thousands
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| | with the Islands of The Bahamas, whose
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| of years ago. Christopher Columbus's
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| | relatively small land mass belies the
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| first landfall in the New World in 1492
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| | sheer quantity of its beachfront. With
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| is believed to have been on the island of
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| | the vast majority of the islands shaped
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| San Salvador (also called Watling's
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| | like slivers, one imagines two gorgeous
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| Island), in the southeastern Bahamas. He
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| | stretches of beach separated by the most
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| encountered Taino (also known as Lucayan)
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| | perfunctory of inlands. The beaches of
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| Amerindians and exchanged gifts with
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| | The Bahamas are often coupled with
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| them.The 294,982 people who live in The
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| | shallow transparent water for hundreds of
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| Bahamas are predominantly of West African
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| | yards out to sea, rising gently to
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| descent. Their ancestors were slaves
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| | sandbars before finally dropping into the
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| brought to the islands to work the cotton
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| | depths.
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