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The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933 de Howard Johnson

The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933

Autor Howard Johnson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 1997
"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, andtheir 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/
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ISBN-13: 9780813014944
ISBN-10: 0813014948
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 161 x 237 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University Press of Florida

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In the only scholarly treatment of Bahamian socio-economic history in post-emancipation years, Johnson begins by examining the last phase of slavery as one element in the foundation of later, and often more exploitative, labor systems. Looking at both urban and rural slave populations, Johnson discusses the systems of slave hire, apprenticeship, and indenture and highlights the ways in which the people of the Bahamas formed a proto-peasantry, often exerting more autonomy and power as slaves than as a "free" people. Following emancipation in 1838, export economies of cotton, salt, sponges, and pineapples spawned coercive credit and truck systems, which bolstered the dominance of a white mercantile elite that would exercise control until the early 1960s. Various government policies further perpetuated a "machinery of class slavery", making migration (primarily to Key West, and later to Miami) one of the few escape routes available to the lower classes. Throughout, Johnson relates historical movements and events in the Bahamas to those in neighboring Caribbean islands, Latin America, and the United States, making this an important source book for all Caribbeanists. It will also be of interest to scholars of the historiography of slavery in the Americas and the transition from slavery to freedom - or, in a post-emancipation system of domination like that of the Bahamas - from slavery to servitude.

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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).