Bahamas and slavery

       After the American Revolution, thousands of British Loyalists, took their African slaves and moved their farms to Bahamas. Where they set up a thriving plantation economy. When Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807, the Royal Navy resettled many free Africans from illegal slave ships in the Bahamas during the 19th century. Hundreds of American slaves and Black Seminoles escaped to the islands from Florida, and  500 were freed from American merchant ships in trade routes. Slavery in the Bahamas was fully abolished in 1834.