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by Tamika Galanis THE COLLOQUIAL BAHAMIAN response to the the plantation owner, Joseph Hunter. request for someone’s name, upon introduction, is Cat Island is synonymous throughout the ar- typically their name preceded by “I name.” Such chipelago with obeah, an indigenous African cul- a title seemed fitting for this project after I was tural practice often associated with the dark arts; supernaturally introduced to the story of an en- it’s the island among the Bahamas that held onto slaved woman by the name of Charlotte—one of its Africanisms the longest, which is understand- two women charged as accomplices in orches- able with its plantation ruins numbering more trating the 1831 Bahamian revolt of enslaved peo- than thirty. The practice of obeah in the British ples at the the Golden Grove plantation in Port colonies was outlawed in the 1800s because obe- Howe, Cat Island, Bahamas—a woman who has ah in the hands of the enslaved Africans was a long lived in the shadow of Dick “Black Dick” De- liberatory praxis. It is impossible to extract all its veaux, the enslaved man who was hanged for co- tenets from Bahamian folk culture. The use of ordinating the uprising and attempted
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Mar 21, 2020
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