Homeward bound : a history of the Bahama Islands to 1850 with a definitive study of Abaco in the American loyalist plantation period /
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| Author / Creator: | Riley, Sandra, 1938- |
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| Edition: | Bicentennial ed. |
| Imprint: | Miami, Fla. : Island Research ; Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, The Bahamas : Albert Lowe Museum, c1983. |
| Description: | xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/629093 |
Table of Contents:
- Bicentennial Message
- Foreword
- Preface
- Author's Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- 1. In the Beginning ... Enigma
- 2. "The Flag That Bears No History but Blood and Tears"
- 3. The Re-Peopling of the Bahamas and Other Disastrous Accounts
- 4. Lords, Knaves, and "They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships"
- 5. The Great Age of Piracy
- 6. Old Rusty Guts
- 7. The Return of Rusty Guts
- 8. "Out of the Frying Pan"
- 9. American War of Independence
- 10. "The World Turned Upside Down"
- 11. The Losers
- 12. Homeward Bound
- 13. "Double, Double Toil and Trouble"
- 14. "When the Hurly-Burly's Done"
- 15. More "Hurly-Burly"
- 16. "Anything to Make a Living"
- 17. The High Road to Freedom
- 18. "Free at Last"
- Chapter References
- Appendix A. List of Baptisms and Marriages 1721-1726
- Appendix B. 1731 and Book "C" Censuses
- Appendix C. Curry Family Genealogy
- Appendix D. "Book of Negroes"
- Appendix E. Abaco Loyalists
- Appendix F. 1834 "Slave Register"
- Bibliography
- Index