I lived on the west side of this wall on Lifebouy Street which is now "Chippy" Chipman Street. I would walk along this wall to get to the laundromat which was on the Gibbs corner and through the wall to get to school at DW Davis. Growing up I had heard about the racism which was associated with the wall construction and even in the early eighties it was clear the economic difference on each side of the wall . I remember the homes along collins ave, I would pass them on my short cut home, these homes had roses blooming in the front yards. I would stop to smell them being careful never to pick them. The always smelt wonderful. While my side of the wall may not have been considered wealthy, I only recall happy childhood memories of going to the pump to collect water and shooting marbles in the dirt and all the trappings of childhood in the summer ....fruit trees, baggies, cup, fresh bread ...oh the good ole days 🤣
Thank you for the insightful information on this unique aspect of Bahamian history. Congratulations to Arnold and Belinda for keeping our history alive.
What a beautiful documentary ! Congratulations Ms Rosemary C. Hanna. This is a wealth of information about our Bahamian history the way communities were. Where can I find a buy a copy of her book?
Awesome ! Archiving History ! Heritage ! Legacies ! Arnold your Labour of Love is priceless . National Honor should be bestowed upon you in life. Thank you . Congratulations. Blessings.
Thank you so much for this series! I so miss the character of the family islands the mailboats serve. This is Sid...worked for M. Oakes years ago everywhere! God bless you!
This is propaganda. Every Bahamian knows the truth of the wall. Collins cared so much about black people he payed them pennies to build a wall to protect nothing? Only a fool would make sense out of that. Even so why wasnt there a wall on the other side?
My Grammy Beatty was also a seamstress. She raised her children on the business. She taught her daughters to sew. Bahamian women back then were fierce and very self sufficient. God bless, Ms. Lockhart.🙏🏾
I regard Rosemary as a role model, her zest for life and community spirit are motivational and remind me of the values that we seem to have forgotten. ❤
Thanks very much for another presentation on the history of the country. The original Hanna Family is from New Providence. I was given a Family Tree by Garvin Tynes, as, we are descendants of the original John Hanna who came to the Bahamas in the late 1700's.
Awesome! I remember the story about the Collins Wall and the ladders on either side of the wall which was in front of my aunt Mary and Earnal Braynen's house!.Its amazing how the history of the Wall has EVOLVED!
Good morning, Ms. Barbara. Thank you very much for featuring the life of Vince Fountain, with whom I am acquainted. His uncle, Cyril Fountain, married my cousin, and friend, Alicia Hanna Fountain. Thank you for encouraging people to find out about the members of their families, and, information on their histories. I have been doing the same. I am a firm believer in the saying of the Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey, "A People without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture, is like a tree without roots.". Keep up the good work!
I was blessed with the privilege to travel to Nassau Bahamas thru the years. Mr. Stubbs nterview is very interesting as he sounds like a man who loves all genres of music. Hope to drop by one day and I'm still in love with the people and music of Nassau Bahamas. God bless you and the Bahamas Mr. Stubbs.
Update: 9/30/21, Relatives aren’t always exactly who you think that they were/are, a lot of things were happening back before the 1940s that many won’t talk about. It’s good to dig in your family history, search for old photos, but keep your mouth shut like an detective, don’t let them know what you are thinking 💭🤔 , noticing when you are investigating relatives and discovering secrets/things; sounds like secrets up in your family tree, you, your parents or grands and others could be orphans and they aren’t telling you beans, they are just keeping their mouths shut, keeping secrets and keeping their distance. Share with the congregation, or post on Facebook or send in messenger, somebody needs to research/dig in their Family History...
James 1:27 ESV Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world..
Is there a religion that has the right teachings that will lead us to heaven? James 1:26-27 [26]If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. [27]Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:25_27.
And they wonder why we are so f'd up as a people when they were breeding mothers with their sons, daughters with their fathers and brothers with their sisters and then selling the babies to different slaveowners. Once slavery ended and the former slaves were roaming from place to place marrying people who are their sons, daughters, uncles, aunts, fathers, mothers and cousins. We're still finding our relatives based on the rare diseases that runs in our family..
After slavery ex-slaves were marrying their own cousins, and didn’t know it. Black people still marrying their own cousins and don’t know it. We have 100 thousand or more cousins that we don’t know about and never, couldn’t imagine it. You have cousins spreaded out all through the world because of the transatlantic slave trade and rape of slaves causing slaves to have many siblings that they never met. I received the Ancestry dna results may 14,2019 and was shocked to find out all of this. In Every state, country, continent, island, sea island even in the Soviet, Middle east, India you have forth (4th) to tenth (10th) or more cousins in which you would never have imagined..
I am in that Ancestry dna database trying to find out who were the parents, maternal and paternal grandparents of my deceased orphaned parents; my parents went to their graves not knowing that they were orphans and on a daily basis they complained about how bad the Relatives treated them, Relatives used them to get what they wanted and never cared about them nor their children. I didn’t expect to find those relatives (matches) that I previously known in the Ancestry dna database, if someone would of told me that they could of been possibly relatives, and my parents could be the results of some of their ‘men relatives’ stepping out on their wives then I would of hid (don’t put up picture nor use my real name nor make my tree and photos/pictures public but private instead), so that they won’t recognize me and then I would contact only the matches that I didn’t know and who don’t know the relatives that I previous know..
I am sending you these messages to help you and others who wonders why their relatives don’t care nothing about them, share messages with others who complains about their relatives don’t/never did/and doesnt care nothing about them; share these messages with others who complains about not being liked nor cared about by Relatives. This is the reasons these people end up murderers because they have nobody to show them Love, the way to Jesus, which makes them very bitter and hateful. Their parents or grandparents who unknowingly were/are orphans born before the 1940s ends up with no support systems nor networks, nor nobody to teach them something; that’s why they were so screwed up and can’t survive in Life and Life becomes so hard. Just like there’s mandatory physical/health checkups; There should be mandatory emotional check ups for children that starts/begins the school year: ask the children how do they feel, are they happy/sad, how do the relatives treat them, how do the neighbors treat them, is their any problems, what do you need, what is their favorite meal/do you get enough food to eat, do they brush their teeth, when do you bathe, who washes their clothes, who combs their hair, are you being treated nice, were you beat/whooped, etc. Since my mother at age 50 died in August, 1970 when I was 14, I didn’t get to know her, and my dad were drinking crown royal everyday faithfully, from age 54 up to three weeks before he died at 79 years old on sept 26, 1995. Me and my two younger brothers were on our on because we were never given instructions, rules, nobody checking upon us. So I had to be the parent to myself, my two brothers and my father too, he couldn’t read and write and who he thought were his father weren’t his dad and treated, him badly up until he left home at age 14 with no place to go; he had a hard time in Life and so did his children. It were very stressful growing up with these kind of parents..
According to an article in the Internet, there are about 600,000 switched at birth people among the earth’s population all around the world. Babies are switched at birth: are babies who because of other error or malice, are interchanged with each other at birth or very soon thereafter, leading to the babies being unknowingly raised by parents who are not their biological parents..
