Promotional Information

Winner of the 1998-1999 Elsa Goveia Prize for the best book on Caribbean History.

About the Author

Michael Craton (Author)
MICHAEL CRATON is a professor of history at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of several books, including Empire, Enslavement, and Freedom in the Caribbean and A History of the Bahamas.

Gail Saunders (Author)
GAIL SAUNDERS is the Archivist of the Bahamas in Nassau; her works include Bahamian Loyalists and Their Slaves and Bahamian Society After Emancipation.

Reviews

"This is an impressive and comprehensive volume. It is wide-ranging and manages to convey a clear picture of present-day Bahamian society."--Howard Johnson, author of "The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783-1933"