| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages) : map |
| Contents |
The Bahamian economy to 1815 -- The self-hire system and the transition to contractual relations in Nassau -- The restructuring of agrarian relations after 1800 -- Between slavery and freedom: the liberated Africans and unfree labor -- The establishment of a dependent tenantry -- The credit and truck systems: the control of credit and labor -- Race, class, and urban policing -- Merchant hegemony and the making of immigration policy -- Labor migration as protest and survival strategy |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-212) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Bahamas -- History
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Plantation life -- Bahamas -- History
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Truck system -- Bahamas -- History
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Bahamas -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
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Economic history
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Plantation life
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Slavery
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
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Truck system
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Slavernij.
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Arbeiders.
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| SUBJECT |
Bahamas -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
Bahamas
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Bahama's.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0813019842 |
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9780813019840 |
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