Record #:

20238

Author(s):

Hunt, Marvin W.

Abstract:

Following the American Revolution, defeated Loyalists fled to the remote corner of Abaco in The Bahamas. Since then, the descendants of those Loyalists have maintained a population that is racially, culturally, and politically distinct from the other twenty-nine populated islands that make up The Bahamas. The Abaco population more closely resembles isolated communities on Ocracoke and Harkers Island, where the population still speaks with a brogue, resembling the tongue spoken by the earliest Scot-Irish settlers.

Source:

North Carolina Literary Review (NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 7, 1998, p82-95, por

Subject(s):

Culture--North Carolina--Language; Culture--North Carolina; Isolated Communities