Freedom and Resistance

"Brilliant. Puts the Bahamas on the map with Jamaica, Antigua, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone as sites where black refugees who fled the American victory in the War of Independence added mightily to the economy and religious life in their new homes."—John Saillant, author of Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753–1833



"A rich social history that recognizes both the unique nature of Bahamian society and the ways in which it fit into an Atlantic context."—Carla Gardina Pestana, author of Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World

"Sheds new light on the black loyalist experience in a region of the Atlantic where plantation slavery was not the dominant labor system. . . . Curry shows how black loyalists in the Bahamas built on revolutionary traditions and fundamentally transformed Bahamian society in the early nineteenth century."—Choice



"Curry has broadened our understanding of black loyalist history, both by accenting the specificities of the Bahamian experience and by confirming their similarities with other locations in this fascinating diaspora."—William and Mary Quarterly



“Demonstrates that black loyalists helped to shape Bahamian society, and successfully represents these struggles as a crucial part of the wider efforts of peoples around the world to claim their social, political, economic, and legal rights during the Age of Revolution.”—Slavery and Abolition