The Bahamas from slavery to servitude, 1783-1933 / Howard Johnson. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Howard, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Bahamas--History.

Slavery.

Plantation life--Bahamas--History.

Plantation life.

Truck system--Bahamas--History.

Truck system.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Bahamas--History.

Enslaved persons.

Bahamas--Economic conditions.

Bahamas.

Slavery--History--Bahamas.

Plantation life--History--Bahamas.

Truck system--History--Bahamas.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--History--Bahamas.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 218 p. ) map ;

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Highly important scholarly treatment of Bahamian socioeconomic history in post-emancipation period. In addition to examining last phases of slavery in both rural and urban settings, looks at export economies of salt, cotton, pineapples, and sponges, and their roles in emergence of mercantile middle class. Concludes that partly because of flawed governmental policies, workers ended up in servitude and ultimately migrated to Miami"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas

Contents:

1. The Bahamian Economy to 1815

2. The Self-Hire System and the Transition to Contractual Relations in Nassau

3. The Restructuring of Agrarian Relations After 1800

4. Between Slavery and Freedom: The Liberated Africans and Unfree Labor

5. The Establishment of a Dependent Tenantry

6. The Credit and Truck Systems: The Control of Credit and Labor

7. Race, Class, and Urban Policing

8. Merchant Hegemony and the Making of Immigration Policy

9. Labor Migration as Protest and Survival Strategy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-212) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8130-1984-2