Bahama Saga: The Epic Story of the Bahama IslandsAuthor House, 2004 M05 21 - 360 páginas BAHAMA SAGA is a chronicle of the human presence on a unique archipelago of the Americas. The story takes its title from a few invented characters and the romantic and beautiful country of seven hundred sub-tropical islands. The confetti of Bahamian islands has, at different times, been a locus for the three races of the planet. After the original Amerindian inhabitants perished, the Bahamas remained uninhabited for nearly 150 years until people from Bermuda - largely of English and African stock - re-settled the islands commencing in 1648. Not long afterwards many more Africans were brought to the Bahamas in bondage. Their descendants today hold the destiny of the islands in their hands. The geographical location of the Bahamas allowed the islands to play a brief, but important part in the history of the modern world. The eastern islands protrude out into the Atlantic Ocean so as to make them one of the nearest parts of the Americas to Europe and it was here that an explorer from Europe made a historic landfall at what, for him at least, was a 'New World. It was just over five hundred years ago that Christopher Columbus in 1492 sailed the ocean blue. The islands on the western side are a mere 50 miles from the United States. Throughout time, events on the North American continent have had a major affect upon the history of the Bahama Islands as this well-written and intriguing story relates. |
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THE LUCAYANS 600 1513 AD | 45 |
ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA 1492 | 75 |
WORLDS COLLIDE 1492 | 87 |
ISLANDS OF THE GOLDEN ROAD 1513 1648 | 109 |
PART TWO | 131 |
PIRATES AND COMMERCE 1670 1733 | 157 |
RED WHITE AND TRUE BLUE 1770 1800 | 217 |
EMANCIPATION THE BLOCKADE 1801 1899 | 237 |
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1900 | 267 |
PRIDE PREJUDICE PROGRESS 1950 | 291 |
EPILOGUE | 315 |
Appendix A Which was the first island discovered | 321 |
APPENDIX B Some consequences of the European | 329 |
Governors of the Bahamas referred to in the Text | 335 |