Homeward Bound: A History of the Bahama Islands to 1850 With a Definitive Study of Abaco in the American Loyalist Plantation Period

by Riley, Sandra; Peters, Thelma

• ISBN13: 9780966531022
• ISBN10: 0966531027
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Author Biography

Novelist and historian, Sandra Riley holds her B.A. from Barry University, her M.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Columbia Pacific University. Dr. Riley's professional affiliations include the Albert Lowe Museum, the Bahamas Archaeological Project, the Bahamas Historical Society, the Historical Association of Southern Florida and the Florida Historical Society

Table of Contents

Bicentennial Message: D. Gail Saunders, Chief Archivist for The Bahamas	p. iv
Foreword: Dr. Thelma Peters	p. v
Preface	p. vi
Author's Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. x
In the Beginning...Enigma	p. 1
"The Flag That Bears No History but Blood and Tears"	p. 16
The Re-Peopling of the Bahamas and Other Disastrous Accounts	p. 24
Lords, Knaves, and "They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships"	p. 37
The Great Age of Piracy	p. 51
Old Rusty Guts	p. 68
The Return of Rusty Guts	p. 79
"Out of the Frying Pan"	p. 86
American War of Independence	p. 95
"The World Turned Upside Down"	p. 107
The Losers	p. 124
Homeward Bound	p. 135
"Double, Double Toil and Trouble"	p. 150
"When the Hurly-Burly's Done"	p. 167
More "Hurly-Burly"	p. 180
"Anything to Make a Living"	p. 193
The High Road to Freedom	p. 203
"Free at Last"	p. 215
Chapter References	p. 232
List of Baptisms and Marriages 1721-1726	p. 261
1731 and Book "C" Censuses	p. 262
Curry Family Genealogy	p. 263
"Book of Negroes"	p. 266
Abaco Loyalists	p. 270
1834 "Slave Register"	p. 275
Bibliography	p. 278
Index	p. 285
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