1: Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People: Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery

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From two leading historians of Bahamian history comes this groundbreaking work on a unique archipelagic nation. Islanders in the Stream is not just the first comprehensive chronicle of the Bahamian people, it’s also the first work of its kind and scale for any Caribbean nation. This comprehensive volume details the full, atypical history of the entire people who have ever inhabited the islands and explains the evolution of a Bahamian national identity within the framework of neighboring territories in identical circumstances.

Divided into three sections, this volume covers the period from aboriginal times to the end of formal slavery in 1838. The first part includes authoritative accounts of Columbus’s first landfall in the New World on San Salvador island, his voyage through the Bahamas, and the ensuing disastrous collision of European and native Arawak cultures. Covering the islands’ initial settlement, the second one section ranges from the initial European incursions and the first English settlements through the lawless era of pirate misrule to Britain’s official takeover and development of the colony in the eighteenth century. The third, and largest, section offers a full analysis of Bahamian slave society through the great influx of Empire Loyalists and their slaves on the end of the American Revolution to the purported achievement of full freedom for the slaves in 1838.

This work is both a pioneering social history and a richly illustrated narrative modifying previous Eurocentric interpretations of the islands’ early history. Written to appeal to Bahamians in addition to all those interested in Caribbean history, Islanders in the Stream looks on the islands and their people in their fullest contexts, constituting not just the most thorough view of Bahamian history so far but a huge contribution to Caribbean historiography.

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