{"id":846,"date":"2014-07-10T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=846"},"modified":"2014-08-25T05:49:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T05:49:27","slug":"3-berry-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=846","title":{"rendered":"Berry Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berry Island, situated just northeast of Andros Island, was first settled in 1836 by free Africans at Great Harbor Cay, under Governor William MacBean George Colebrooke (1787-1870). The mulatto governor who welcomed Dickie Galt may have been a Black Seminole, one of a bi-racial group of Seminole Indians and free American blacks who escaped from Florida in 1821 and settled on Andros Island <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bahamasgateway.com\/berry_island_bahamas.htm\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">http:\/\/www.bahamasgateway.com\/berry_island_bahamas.htm<\/span><\/a> ; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnb.ca\/lg\/gov-e.asp\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">http:\/\/www.gnb.ca\/lg\/gov-e.asp<\/span><\/a><\/span>; Rosalyn Howard, \u201cThe \u2018Wild Indians\u2019 of Andros Island: Black Seminole Legacy in the Bahamas\u2019,\u201d <em>Journal of Black Studies<\/em>, Vol. 37 No. 2, (November 2006) 275-298; Toni Carrier, \u201cBlack Seminoles, Maroons and Freedom Seekers in Florida, Part 3: The Destruction of Angola,\u201d The USF Africana Heritage Project, <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanaheritage.com\/Black_Seminoles_Angola.asp\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">http:\/\/www.africanaheritage.com\/Black_Seminoles_Angola.asp<\/span><\/a><\/span> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berry Island, situated just northeast of Andros Island, was first settled in 1836 by free Africans at Great Harbor Cay, under Governor William MacBean George Colebrooke (1787-1870). The mulatto governor who welcomed Dickie Galt may have been a Black Seminole, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=846\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4M6TH-dE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}