Bahama Saga: The Epic Story of the Bahama Islands

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Author 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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A LAND REVEALED 50000 BC 600 AD
3
MISSION OF DISCOVERY c 150 BC
23
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

RELUCTANT VISITORS 1748 1834
195

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Página 162 - TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE JAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, ETC.
Página 50 - They neither carry nor know anything of arms, for I showed them swords, and they took them by the blade and cut themselves through ignorance. They have no iron...
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Página 115 - That simple people listened with wonder and credulity ; and, fond of visiting their relations and friends in that happy region, followed the Spaniards with eagerness. By this artifice, above forty thousand were decoyed into Hispaniola, to share in the sufferings which were the lot of the inhabitants of that island, and to mingle their groans and tears with those of that wretched race of men'.

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Peter Barratt has had a love affair with The Bahamas and its multi-faceted history since he first visited the islands in 1960. A British-trained architect with a degree in urban and regional planning from Harvard, Barratt’s extensive knowledge of the Bahama Islands grew as the town planner formerly in charge of the development of the new city of Freeport... the early days of which he has written about in his book, Grand Bahama. An avid amateur archaeologist and founder of the Lucayan National Park, he has written many articles and papers about the Bahamas. A tennis player and licensed pilot, Barratt also sails and dives the amazing waters of the Bahamas as he continues to explore the waves of tide and time that have brought together so many different people from around the world to its tropical shores.

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