The African Diaspora to the BahamasFriesenPress, 8.01.2013 г. - 272 страници Current historiography on aspects of Bahamian history presents limited research on the African presence in the islands, irrespective of the fact that arguably 85% of the population of that country is represented by such persons. One primary objective of this book is to begin to more adequately address this literary ommission by presenting an initial comprehensive work on the subject. The book attempts to trace the origin of this migration by focusing on some of the primary dynamics of ethnicity within the context of the geo-politics and geo-economics of the emerging Atlantic world. It is hoped that the reader will emerge with a greater awareness of, and wider insight into Bahamian history, and, the Bahamian majority will leave with a greater sense of what it truly means to be a Bahamian.... |
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Preface | 1 |
An Overview of The African Slave Trade | 4 |
AFRICANS IN NORTH AMERICA | 18 |
EARLY AFRICAN PRESENCE IN THE BAHAMAS | 43 |
The Saga of the Black Loyalist | 57 |
Black soldiers and Haitian immigrants | 82 |
AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND
THE ISSUE OF RESETTLEMENT | 101 |
SALTWATER UNDERGROUND RAILROAD | 123 |
PROTEST IN ANTICIPATION OF EMANCIPATION | 138 |
PERSPECTIVES ON ETHNICITY ANCESTRY AND COMMUNITY | 173 |
CARIBBEAN MIGRATION
AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN BAHAMAS | 188 |
TABLES | 225 |
Endnotes | 229 |
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Abaco Adderley African descent African Diaspora African slaves American areas Atlantic authorities Bahama Gazette Bahamian Barbadian became Bermuda Bermudian black Bahamians black communities black Loyalists Black Seminoles black troops British Caicos Islands captured Caribbean Carmichael-Smyth Carolina century Colonial Office Records color court Craton Creole Cuba East Florida economic Eleuthera emancipation employment English enslaved escaped established ethnic European eventually Exuma families force free blacks freed freedom French Governor Guyanese Haiti Haitian Haitian Revolution Harbour Ibid illegal immigrants Inagua included indentured Jamaican John labor land liberated Africans Loyalists migration military mulatto named Nassau Negro North noted owners persons pirates plantation planters police political population protest recruited refuge relocated reported reportedly resettled residents runaway Saint Domingan Saint Domingue settlements ships significant slave trade slavery social society soldiers South southern Spanish tion Town Turks and Caicos vessel Vice Admiralty Court West India Regiment West Indian Yoruba