The Bahamas from slavery to servitude, 1783-1933 /

"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 m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Howard, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©1996.
Temas:
Slavery > Bahamas > History.
Plantation life > Bahamas > History.
Truck system > Bahamas > History.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Bahamas > History.
Vie dans les plantations > Bahamas > Histoire.
Salaires en nature > Bahamas > Histoire.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Bahamas > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Economic history
Plantation life
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Truck system
Slavernij.
Arbeiders.
Bahamas > Economic conditions.
Bahamas > Conditions économiques.
Bahamas
Bahama's.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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