THE

BAHAMAS
 INDEPENDENCE OF THE
BAHAMAS 10 JULY 1973 

the Bahamas were the The Bahamas became

site of Christopher a British crown colony Slavery was finally
Columbus' first voyage when the British abolished in the
to the New World  outlawed piracy. Bahamas. 

1513 1807 1973

1492 1718 1834

1648 Were colonized
by the Spanish, when
English settlers from
the island of Bermuda
settled on the island
of Eleuthera.
Britain banned the July 10, The Bahamas
slave trade, yet African achieved
slaves were illegally independence as a
taken to the Bahamas.  monarchy in the
Commonwealth of
Nations.