Ros Seyfert's List: Bahamian Society after Emancipation

Chapter 1 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It explores on the behaviour and social life of the coloured middle class people in Nassau, Bahamas from 1890-1942. It mentions that the Nassau society was segregated based from colour wherein races where separated in housing, education, occupation, and social intercourse. It states that the coloured employed blacks as domestic workers and gardeners, which usually lasts for lifetime.

Chapter 2 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It explores the role of women in Bahamian society and economy during the late nineteenth century. It distinguishes the women of Nassau, mini-metropolis and those who settle in the Out Island. It discusses women's participation in the Fox Hill Day and Guy Fawkes celebrations, and church activities in Nassau and the Out Islands. It also cites an overview of the economic and social conditions in the Bahamas.

Chapter 3 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It explores on the family life in Bahamas and compared it to the West Indian patterns. It mentions that the American slaves, who were brought by Loyalists in Bahamas, have influenced the Bahamian slave family. It states that the influences of the church in marriage caused the separation of different classes and the commitment of families in monogamy and stigma to illegitimacy.

Chapter 4 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It highlights the survival of the Out Island communities in Bahamas despite the social and economic conditions similar to other West Indians islands. It says that the physical separation of Out Island from New Providence, Bahamas resulted in the former's isolation, wherein the settlements were self-contained having more contacts with Nassau, Bahamas for trade purposes than with a neighboring village.

Chapter 5 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It explores the status of Bahamian slaves before and after the implementation of the Emancipation Act of 1838 which gave them full freedom from their masters. It highlights the efforts of the Over-the-Hill or black people to retain its cultural identity, such as their native language, customs, and way of cooking food, despite the discriminatory treatment the White Nassau was showing them.

Chapter 6 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It provides information regarding the life and culture in the Bahamian Society during the 19th and 20th century. It analyzes the traditions, belief systems and the leisure time of Bahamian people. It adds that the black people combined the traditional, evangelical, and fundamentalist forms of Christianity containing revivalism and spiritualism.

Chapter 7 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It explores the practice of blockade-running prevalent in Bahamas during the 17th century and its implications to the economy of the country. It states that blockade-running has increased the economic rate of the country which became evident as the export and import trade prospered. However, it tells that the practice had brought negative effects to the overall society of Bahamas.

Chapter 9 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Sanders is presented. It says that the fundamental change in Caribbean area took place in the twentieth century in which the cultural, economic, and political patterns are developed and became independent. It highlights the development of tourism in Bahamas in 1920 to 1930 and its noted impact on the socieconomic and political life of the colony in terms of race relations on various entrepreneurs.

Chapter 10 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It explores the events that happened prior to the 1937 Inagua disturbance recognized as the Inagua Riot in Bahamas and the causes which give rise to the disturbance. It discusses the reports regarding the disturbance and presented different arguments on the causes which contributed to such disturbance such as racial tension, British Caribbean's labour disturbances, and personal vendetta.

Chapter 11 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It focuses on the 1942 riot in Nassau, Bahamas, which is considered the last in the series of riots and strike that took place throughout the British West Indies after the emancipation in 1934. It also discusses the establishment of the Labour Union in 1936, the Federation of Labour in May 1942, and demonstrations of black labourers on June 1, 1942 to ask for increase in their wage.

Chapter 12 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It tracks the history of the 1956 resolution proposed by the "Tribune" editor Etienne Dupuch against racial discrimination in the Bahamas. It also examines the reasons for relentless racial discrimination in the nation and describes the events encompassing the 1956 resolution. It also determines the resolution had been successful in breaking the segregationist policies of the Bahamas.

Chapter 13 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It examines the causes of the 1958 strike by the Taxi Cab Union in the Bahamas and its impact on the political and social structure of the country. It discusses various developments following the strike such as the foundation of the Labour Department Board, the implementation of the Trade Union and Industrial Coalition Act, and the inclusion of male suffrage in the General Assembly Election Act of 1959.

Chapter 14 of the book "Bahamian Society After Emancipation," by Gail Saunders is presented. It explores the importance of race relation in the establishment of the Bahamian society, wherein white loyalists greatly influenced its structure when they introduced the master and slave relationship that resulted to residential separation. It examines the condition of Bahamian society after the emancipation, wherein the coloured and black middle class emerged and recognized through education.