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The Bahamas from slavery to servitude, 1783-1933 /

Main Author: Johnson, Howard, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©1996.
Subjects:
Slavery > History. > Bahamas
Plantation life > History. > Bahamas
Truck system > History. > Bahamas
Slaves > Emancipation > Bahamas > History.
Vida en las plantaciones > Historia > Bahamas.
Pago de salarios en especies > Historia. > Bahamas
Esclavos > Emancipación > Bahamas > Historia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Economic history.
Plantation life.
Slavery.
Slaves > Emancipation.
Slavernij.
Bahamas > Economic conditions.
Bahamas > Condiciones económicas.
Bahamas.
Bahama's.
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Table of 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.

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