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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).
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University Press of Florida Gainesville/Tallahassee/Tampa/Boca Raton Pensacola/Orlando/Miami/Jacksonville
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Copyright 1996 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Johnson, Howard, 1945 The Bahamas from slavery to servitude, 1783-1933 / Howard Johnson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8130-1494-8 (alk. paper) 1. SlaveryBahamasHistory. 2. Plantation lifeBahamasHistory. 3. Truck systemBahamasHistory. 4. SlavesEmancipationBahamasHistory. 5. Bahamas Economic conditions. L Title. HT1119.B34J34 1996 306.3'62'097296dc 20 96-26829
The University Press of Florida is the scholarly publishing agency for the State University System of Florida, comprised of Florida A & M University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, University of North Florida, University of South Florida, and University of West Florida.
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For Joyce
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Contents
List of Tables
viii
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
1. The Bahamian Economy to 1815
1
2. The Self-Hire System and the Transition to Contractual Relations in Nassau
33
3. The Restructuring of Agrarian Relations After 1800
47
4. Between Slavery and Freedom: The Liberated Africans and Unfree Labor
62
5. The Establishment of a Dependent Tenantry
84
6. The Credit and Truck Systems: The Control of Credit and Labor
98
7. Race, Class, and Urban Policing
119
8. Merchant Hegemony and the Making of Immigration Policy
131
9. Labor Migration as Protest and Survival Strategy
151
Conclusion
165
Notes
170
Bibliography
200
Index
213
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Tables
Table 1 Statistics of migration between the Bahamas and Florida, 1911-1917
158
Table 2 Decennial census returns, 1881-1921
160
Table 3 Population and loss from emigration in the Bahamas, 1901-1921
161
Table 4 Selected food imports into the Bahamas, by value, 1921-1929
162
Table 5 Postal money order remittances from the United States to the Bahamas, 1905-1913
163
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Acknowledgments
During the twelve-year period of my involvement in Bahamian history, I have incurred several debts in connection with my research and writing. I should like once again to thank Gail Saunders, who first encouraged my interest in Bahamian history by recruiting me to speak on a Bahamian subject at the monthly meeting of the Bahamas Historical Society in March 1983. Her role in directing perhaps the best-managed archives department in the Caribbean has been equally important to my research activities. John M. Trainor suggested as the topic for that initial lecture the truck system in the Bahamas.
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