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Albury, Paul. 1994. The Story of the Bahamas. London: Macmillan Education Ltd.

Buden, Donald W. “The Birds of Long Island, Bahamas.” The Wilson Bulletin 104, no. 2 (1992): 220-43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4163148.

Bush, B. 2006. “LAURIE A. WILKIE, PAUL FARNSWORTH. Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 2005. Pp. Xii, 354. $65.00.” The American Historical Review111 (5): 1565–66. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.111.5.1565.

Craton, Michael, and Gail Saunders. 1999. Islanders in the Stream: a History of the Bahamian People. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Volume One: From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery” was published in 1992 and is the first comprehensive chronicle of the Bahamian people in the Bahamas, and it is the first work of its kind in the Caribbean region. It was written by Canadian author Michael Craton and Bahamian Historian and Author Gail Saunders. A part two of this work was also published in 2000.\

Edwards, Charles Lincoln. 1942. (1895) Bahama Songs and Stories: a Contribution to Folk-Lore. New York: Stechert.

Farnsworth, Paul. 1996. “The Influence of Trade on Bahamian Slave Culture.” Historical Archaeology 30 (4): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03373594. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25616490.

“Fibre Industry at the Bahamas.” 1889. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens, Kew)1889 (27): 57. https://doi.org/10.2307/4118433.

Glinton-Meicholas, Patricia, and Stanley Burnside. 1994. An Evening in Guanima: a Treasury of Folktales from the Bahamas. Nassau, Bahamas: Guanima Press.

Holm, John. 1983. “On the Relationship of Gullah and Bahamian.” American Speech58 (4): 303. https://doi.org/10.2307/455145.

Johnson, Howard. “Labour Systems in Postemancipation Bahamas.” Social and Economic Studies 37, no. 1/2 (1988): 181-201. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27862934.

Miller, W. Hubert. 1945. “The Colonization of the Bahamas, 1647-1670.” The William and Mary Quarterly 2 (1): 33. https://doi.org/10.2307/1920686.

Peters, Thelma. “The American Loyalists in the Bahama Islands: Who They Were.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 40, no. 3 (1962): 226-40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30139824.

Ramey, Daina L. “”She Do a Heap of Work”: Female Slave Labor on Glynn County Rice and Cotton Plantations.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 82, no. 4 (1998): 707-34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40583902.

Tinker, Keith L. 2016. The Migration of Peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas. Florida: University Press of Florida.

Wilkie, Laurie A., and Paul Farnsworth. “Trade and the Construction of Bahamian Identity: A Multiscalar Exploration.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3, no. 4 (1999): 283-320. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20852939.

Wilkie, Laurie A. 2000. “Culture Bought: Evidence of Creolization in the Consumer Goods of an Enslaved Bahamian Family.” Historical Archaeology 34 (3): 10–26. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03373638. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25616828.