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Overview of the History of the Bahamas

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sole inhabitancy for a lengthy period before Christopher Columbus sailed ashore, claimed the land as Spains and renamed them the Lucayan Indians. A strong oppression soon commenced as Spain  sought to take what it could from the islands natural resources; however, when it was learned that little gold, silver or other valuable trading commodities were availed, the grip of  control gradually loosened (Anonymous, 2003). British colonists were next to claim the islands as their own, when by the mid fifteenth century English settlers moved in throughout the region, at  which point the account of Bahamian existence mirrors that of the United States British Loyalists who, wanting to remain under British rule after the Revolutionary War, relocated from the Carolinas  and New England (Anonymous, 2003). North Carolinas first wave of permanent English settlers came in the form of southeastern Virginia immigrants, whose relationship  to the tidewater area helped label them as overflow settlers. Their final destination at mid-century came to be a northeastern part of North Carolina known as Albemarle. Thirteen  years later, eight Englishmen were granted a charter to North Carolina -- which has "received considerably less scholarly attention than have other mainland southern colonies of British North America" (Ambrose,  1997, p. 229) - for aiding Charles II re-establish his place on the throne. At the crux of this charter reside the tenets of territorial dominion that clearly and  ever so distinctly laid out the coordinates so that no one - absolutely no one - could be mistaken of just how much territory was involved. "All that Territory  or tract of ground, situate, lying, and being within our Dominions in America, extending from the North end of the Island called Luck Island, which lies in the Southern Virginia