Bahamas, Turks, and Caicos Islands: Difference between revisions

== Demographics ==

Historically, the Bahamas, Turks, and Caicos Islands were considered a settler colony of the British. Majority of the modern-day population is of European descent (64%) and trace their roots to the English Puritans and Virginian loyalists who moved there after the independence of Virginia in the 1850s. Africans make up 34% of the population, owing to the slave population brought in by plantation owners during the late 1700s until the British outlawed the slave trade in the 1830s. Asians, Native Americans, and other ethnic groups make up 2% of the population.