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

By Gail Saunders, Michael Craton, Gail Saunders-Smith

Book Overview

Astride the northern portals of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, the Bahama Islands were of significant, if literally marginal, importance during the colonial era, from their discovery by Columbus in 1492 to their independence from Great Britain in 1973. Yet the archipelago was for so long in the imperial shadow that the record of its peoples - Amerindians, white settlers, black slaves, and their descendants - has been hitherto set mainly in the context of the islands' and islanders' compliance with and usefulness to Britain, Spain, and the United States.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820313823
• ISBN13: 9780820313825
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.5" x 6.5"