Bahamian memories
Subtitle: island voices of the Twentieth Century
By: Olga Culmer Jenkins.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Oral history.; Bahamas -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Description: "In Bahamian Memories, Olga Jenkins offers a story of the last one hundred years of Bahamian history, letting those who lived it tell it. Allowing each person's recollection to stand with its own color, texture, and pattern, she has created a people's history of these Bahamians." "Most of the thirty people Jenkins selected were born during the first three decades of the twentieth century, and their voices are as varied as the populations of the eight islands the author visited, including black, white, mixed, and working- and middle-class individuals. Their views of change during the last century are captured in discussions ranging from early lifestyles, beliefs, and values to traditional occupations and customs to contract farming and tourism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-274) and index.