Gail Saunders
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Director, Department of Archives, Nassau, The Bahamas. Author of Bahamian Loyalists and Their Slaves and others.
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The Bahamas, archipelago and country on the northwestern edge of the West Indies. Formerly a British colony, The Bahamas became an independent country within the Commonwealth in 1973. The name Bahamas is of Lucayan Taino (Arawakan) derivation, although some historians believe it is from the Spanish…
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