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A BRIEF HISTORY

The Arawak people lived in the islands of the Bahamas as early a 300 to 400 AD. They were later followed by Lucayan Indians. Neither group of people left a written history, but what they did leave - drawings, pottery, tools and bones - gives insight into their daily lives. In 1492, Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the New World on the island of San Salvador in the eastern Bahamas. After observing the shallow sea around the islands, he said "baja mar" (low water or sea), and effectively named the area The Bahamas, or The Islands of the Shallow Sea. Eighty-five percent of the Bahamas population is of African descent. Many Africans arrived in the Bahamas Islands when they were a staging area for the slave trade in the early 1800's. Others arrived with thousands of British loyalists who left the American colonies at the time of the Revolutionary War. At the time of the American Civil War, the Bahamas prospered as a center of Confederate blockade-running. After World War I, the area served as a base for American Prohibition rum runners. During World War II, the Allies centered training there for the area. Bahamians gained :internal self-government" in 1964 and full independence within the Commonwealth on July 10, 1973.