Exuma: The Loyalist Years 1783-1834 ~ W. H. James ~ Bahamas History Settlement ~ Colonial British Loyalist Settlers from American South

Title: Exuma: The Loyalist Years 1783 - 1834

Author: W. H. [Winfield Henry] James

Description: First Edition, 1988. Covers very faded, showing wear and handling; previous owner's address label in upper corner of front cover. Coffee blot on fore-edge of text block. One page with soiling in the margin, else interior is clean and unmarked. 13 maps. Index. xi + 238 pages. A flawed, but still very decent reading copy.

A factual account of the British Loyalists who migrated from America to the Exuma islands in The Bahamas, following the War of Independence. Many of these Loyalists were from the southern colonies, particularly the Carolinas and Georgia, and initially sought refuge in East Florida. It fills a gap in Bahamian historiography by gathering together in one place much of the available information on the island of Exuma in the loyalist years, 1783-1834.

The author, Winfield Henry ''Tex'' James (1918-2015), was also the president and publisher of the New York Daily News throughout the 1970s.

Binding: Softcover
Condition: Good

Publisher: [published by author]
Place: [Mamaroneck, New York]
Year: 1988

Keywords: Bahamas, history, British Loyalists,