The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933 Contributor(s): Johnson, Howard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813018587 ISBN-13: 9780813018584 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1997 Annotation: "A significant contribution to the history of the Caribbean and to the comparative study of slavery and transitions to free labor systems" (Nigel O. Bolland, Colgate University), this book "shifts the focus of interest from the islands' elites to the common people...with special reference to the black populations" (Richard Sheridan, University of Kansas at Lawrence). |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General - Social Science | Slavery |
Dewey: 306.362 |
LCCN: 96026829 |
Lexile Measure: 1750 |
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.08" W x 9.01" (0.89 lbs) 235 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "A significant contribution to the history of the Caribbean and to the comparative study of slavery and transitions to free labor systems."--O. Nigel Bolland, Colgate University "An extended and comprehensive history of the Bahamas. . . . Shifts the focus of interest from the islands' elites to the common people . . . with special reference to the black population which has hitherto been largely ignored in historical writing."--Richard B. Sheridan, University of Kansas, Lawrence In the only scholarly treatment of Bahamian socioeconomic history in the post-emancipation years, Howard Johnson begins by examining the last phase of slavery as one element in the foundation of later, and often more exploitative, labor systems. Looking at both urban and rural slave populations, Johnson discusses the systems of slave hire, apprenticeship, and indenture and highlights the ways in which the people of the Bahamas often exerted more autonomy and power as slaves than as a "free" people. Howard Johnson is associate professor in the Department of Black American Studies and History at the University of Delaware, editor of After the Crossing: Immigrants and Minorities in Caribbean Creole Society (1988), and author of The Bahamas in Slavery and Freedom (1991). |