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Crooked Island, Bahamas

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Crooked Island is an island and district, part of a group of Bahamian islands defining a large, shallow lagoon called the Bight of Acklins, of which the largest are Crooked Island in the north and Acklins in the south-east, and the smaller are Long Cay (once known as Fortune Island) in the north-west, and Castle Island in the south. [1]

13 relations: Abolitionism in the United Kingdom, Acklins, British Empire, Colonel Hill, Colonel Hill Airport, Eastern Time Zone, Local government in the Bahamas, Long Cay, Loyalist (American Revolution), Plantation, Slavery, Sponge, The Bahamas.

Abolitionism in the United Kingdom

Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal, in the United Kingdom, the British Empire and the world, including ending the Atlantic slave trade.

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Acklins

Acklins is an island and district of the Bahamas.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Colonel Hill

Colonel Hill is a town in the Bahamas, located on Crooked Island.

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Colonel Hill Airport

Colonel Hill Airport, also known as Crooked Island Airport, is an airport in Colonel Hill on Crooked Island in the Bahamas.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Local government in the Bahamas

Local government in the Bahamas exists in two forms, namely second-schedule and third-schedule district councils.

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Long Cay

Long Cay (formerly known as Fortune Island; Caio Longo; Cayo Largo; Île de la Fortune) is an island in the Bahamas in an atoll that includes Acklins Island and Crooked Island.

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Loyalist (American Revolution)

Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often called Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time.

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Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Sponge

Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning "pore bearer"), are a basal Metazoa clade as sister of the Diploblasts.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.

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Crooked Island (Bahamas), Crooked Island and Long Cay.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooked_Island,_Bahamas

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