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Tables of Contents for Islanders in the Stream
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Maps and Figures
vii
List of Tables
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction
xvii
PART ONE Bahamian Genesis: The Lucayan Arawaks, A.D. 500--1525
The Broken Water-Gourd: The Original People and Their Environment
3
18
Fragile Adaptation: The Lucayan Way of Life and Material Culture
21
17
Yocahu and Atabeyra: Life, Death, and the Lucayan Mentalite
38
10
Unequal Exchange: The Spanish Fate of the Lucayan People, 1492--1525
48
15
PART TWO A-Coasting in Shallops: The Early Settlers of the Bahamas, 1647--1783
Motherlands: The British and Bermudian Background of Bahamian Settlement
63
11
The Eleutherian Adventurers, 1647--1670
74
18
Life Under Proprietary Government, 1670--1700
92
12
The Aura of Blackbeard: Piracy and Its Legacies
104
11
Expulsis Piratis: Life Under the Old Colonial System
115
22
The Bahamas in Mid-Century, 1733--1767
137
20
The End of the Old Regime, 1763--1783
157
22
PART THREE Loyalist Slavery, 1783--1834
Threatened Transformation: The Loyalist Impact
179
17
Cotton and Conflict: The 1790s
196
17
The Decline of Cotton and Formal Slavery, 1800--1834
213
20
The Lifeways of the Loyalist Elite
233
25
The Slave Majority: Demographic Patterns
258
39
The Lifeways of the Slaves
297
38
Socioeconomic Symbiosis: Charles Farquharson and His Slaves, San Salvador, 1831--1832
335
23
Slaves' Resistance and the End of Loyalist Slavery
358
34
Epilogue: Muted Celebrations, 1834--1838
392
5
Notes
397
44
Index
441