Bøker av Howard Johnson

The emergence of nationalist movements and the increase in black consciousness in the Caribbean have diverted scholarship away from the white elite to the recording of the experiences of the black and coloured populations. This study reverses this trend by focusing on the strategies adopted by the white community to shape and dominate the social and economic environment in a region which is predominantly non-white.

Each chapter is a story in itself: "The Endless Tress,"To Build a Cabin,"Clearing the Land,"The Fireplace,"The Spinning Wheel,"Ills and Aches,"The Three R's,"Early Grist Mills,"Hunting Tales,"Fights and Shooting Matches,"The First County Fairs,"Driving Hogs to the River,and "How I Met Your Grandmother."

An examination of the last phase of slavery in the Bahamas as one element in the foundation of later, and perhaps more exploitative, labour systems. Johnson suggests the people of the Bahamas often exerted more autonomy and power as slaves than as ""free"" people.