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Please try again later. On July 10th of 1973 The Bahamas gained independence. Prior to this the Bahamas had been a colony under the British Crown since 1718. Join Cliff for this episode as he discusses Independence and how Bahamas' independence has helped them prosper as a nation.lease try again later. On July 10th of 1973 The Bahamas gained independence. Prior to this the Bahamas had been a colony under the British Crown since 1718. Join Cliff for this episode as he discusses Independence and how Bahamas' independence has helped them prosper as a nation.
In the mid-17th century, English settlers named the Eleutheran Adventurers, founded the first permanent European settlement in The Bahamas, and gave the island of Eleuthera its name. As time went by, more and more of these settlements formed until the Bahamas Islands became a British Crown Colony in 1717. Woodes Rogers, a former pirate, was appointed as the first royal governor. Under his governorship, pirates and buccaneers such as Blackbeard and Henry Morgan, who frequently infested the waters around the islands, were driven off.