Afro-Bahamian Erotic

Afro-Bahamians comprise approximately 91% of the Bahamas population per the 2010 Department of Statistics census — among the most demographically homogeneous African-descended national populations in the Americas. The community descends from multiple historical sources: enslaved Africans brought to the British Bahamas during 17th-18th c. plantation development; the substantial post-American-Revolution Loyalist-era arrival of approximately 7,000+ enslaved Africans brought by southern US Loyalist refugees who fled to the Bahamas after British defeat in 1783, primarily from South Carolina and Georgia (these arrivals significantly increased the Bahamas population and brought Gullah-Geechee linguistic and cultural traditions to the islands); plus subsequent 19th c. immigration of liberated Africans landed at Nassau by the British Royal Navy West Africa Squadron after slave-trade abolition. Source populations were predominantly West African (Yoruba, Akan, Igbo) and West-Central African (Bantu-Kongo). Concentrated throughout the islands with particular density in New Providence (Nassau), Grand Bahama, Andros, and Abaco. Bahamian Junkanoo (the December-26 / New-Year-Day Carnival tradition unique to the Bahamas) and Bahamian rake-and-scrape musical tradition are heavily Afro-Bahamian-derived.