Emmie: On shanties: Outside of the sponger era and a few mail packets, the Bahamas has never really had much of a local maritime so, one imagines they sang what the mainlanders sang at the time. fyi: You might enjoy this recently started thread on Caribbean shantymen and womens: https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=162686 On John B & Prouty: I've replied in the main "John B" thread just to keeps things sorted here.
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