Title The Bahamas from slavery to servitude, 1783-1933 / Howard Johnson.

Publication Info.	Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [1996]
	©1996

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Description	1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages) : map
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-212) and index.
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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Subject	Slavery -- Bahamas -- History.
	Slavery.
	Bahamas.
	History.
	Plantation life -- Bahamas -- History.
	Plantation life.
	Truck system -- Bahamas -- History.
	Truck system.
	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Bahamas -- History.
	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies.
	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies.
	Bahamas -- Economic conditions.
	Economic conditions.
	Bahamas -- Condiciones económicas.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Johnson, Howard, 1945- Bahamas from slavery to servitude, 1783-1933. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©1996 0813014948 (DLC) 96026829 (OCoLC)34966030
ISBN	0813019842 (electronic book)
	9780813019840 (electronic book)
	0813014948 (alkaline paper)

Title The Bahamas from slavery to servitude, 1783-1933 / Howard Johnson.

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