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The whole EU took the historical bame with reparations for slavery in The Caribbean. Brave boldness will see rewards it appears. Too sad Doctor Saunders just missed this historical event. Columbus was dead nearly 200 years when African slavery to Caribbean was born. So he nor his ghost is to blame as we can now see. Fir all its historical and especially monetary value The complete tapestry of Bahamian history which Doctor Saunders held ad sacred should be repaired and Discovery Day returned.

You are laughable and just don't know this lady. I wad amazed at the documents she showed me of Bahamian historical significance. Have you ever seen a will spelling out to bequeath to another valuables which included of priority: aspirations of pants, buttons, a fishing hook? And to live past 30 years of age was considered old, with 25 years the average death. Then you don't know what it is to be Bahamian. Or the old captains logs that spoke of sailors enduring bites at night on land then having massive infects from centipedes. You need to read the very rare books in Archives, all of which Doctor Saunders read, to have an idea if her vast historical knowledge.

There was a time when all the tapestry of this land here now and before us was sacred. In her writing Islanders In The Stream she portrayed the history of the new comers, us, our fathers who on a sloop with broken mast adrift in a choppy seas and surrounded by large sharks. A boat sails far off on the hazy horizon.
Many of our generations never bothered to learn Colonial History from the narrow narratives of our British masters. So sad. These islands and cays appeared in the historical records of Portugal long before Columbus so too the Amazon. I misplaced my National Geographics The Tigris Expedition. On a handmade papyrus reed scientist-explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Atlantic in 1969–70 to demonstrate that the currents took him from Africa and the Mediterranean Seas to Central America, also Cat Island.
The Bahamas' history in its purest tapestry includes the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 while the Portuguese used our fresh water in Bimini for hundreds of years to then set out along the Gylf Stream coming from The Amazon.

In 1648 The Eleutheran Adventures arrived here with their slaves. In 1656 Europeans settled here. The Historical data needs to be clearly clarified as Columbus, seeking to replace the routes of Marco Polo in search of India's and Afghanistan's rugs, satin clothes, green gems and other precious stones curiously named or region West Indies. But my how wrong he was. His person, cannot be blamed for the Portuguese slavery to the Amazon. The British followed. We must restore October 12th., and the tens of billions in tourist dollars it brought to The Bahamas and will bring in the future.

Of I am not mistaken, it appears at some roundabouts, that the tar has softened and moved leaving a wave look.

Why don't they touch Sir Harry Oakes Monument of zero universal infamy but commit legendary historical sacrilege upon our tapestry. We must support the 100% purity of The Bahamas historical facts and not erase but defend and build upon its strength that cemented in its uniqueness.

We have to watch, and see how they honor the great natiinal historian but dishonor her historical view.

Being a pure historian, the venerable Dr Saunders probably would have put Christopher Columbus' African slave false narrative to the timeliness. Our politicians probably failed history, or they would learn the first Africans arrived hundreds of years after Columbus' death. The tapestry our our unique and rich history, still being written, cannot and must not be erased by mere opinion and hatred of persons of history. Columbus' statue should stand.
Acvordingvto world annals, The Bahamas will forever be uniquely positioned as that great epicenter if modern history that opened the gates of a new era. Only in The Bahamas could he peoples of Spain, Western Europe with all of The America's converge at San Salvador on each October 12 until eternity. Though according to historical records long before Columbus the Portuguese during their trade with the Amazon region found The Bahamas back then to be be the fresh waterering hole for their fleets, nor to mention slave trade. But not Columbus.

Why aspire to greatness or be a national hero knowing that some day someone will destroy your historical efforts. Be careful of the examples we set. Should governments endorse this statues destruction and removal then no statue will be sacred. Statues, memories and history are fabrics eternal and not a board game. We mist decide whether Sir Pindling's statue should be seen towering over Fort Charlotte to be viewed from North or South.

That is the problem writers face. Political correctness vs historical fact. They are enemies. But someone has to write it. The poor soul.

Great idea for us on Robinson Road East. We still waiting after they took our 4 feet of property and destroyed fencing. Just who do we turn to?