In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
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Abstract
In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, this book recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. A social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, it profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position “in the eye of all trade.” The book takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops and follows white and enslaved sailors as they shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, harvested timber, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled contraband in an expansive maritime sphere spanning Great Britain's North American and Caribbean colonies. In doing so, it shows how humble sailors and seafaring slaves operating small family-owned vessels were significant but underappreciated agents of Atlantic integration. The American Revolution starkly revealed the extent of British America's integration before 1775 as it shattered interregional links that Bermudians had helped to forge. Reliant on North America for food and customers, Bermudians faced disaster at the conflict's start. A bold act of treason enabled islanders to continue trade with their rebellious neighbors, and helped them to survive and even prosper in an Atlantic world at war. Ultimately, however, the creation of the United States ended Bermuda's economic independence and doomed the island's maritime economy.
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Front Matter
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Introduction in the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680–1783
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Colonizing Paradise: The Somers Islands Company and Colony
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Bermuda's Turn to the Sea, 1685–1715
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Bermuda's Maritime Economy 1: Circumatlantic Shipping and Smuggling, 1715–1775
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Bermuda's Maritime Economy 2: Working the Atlantic Commons, 1690–1775
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A Seafaring People: Bermuda's Maritime Society
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Maritime Migration, Trade, and Atlantic Families: Emigration is both natural and easy to a maritime people…. Sometimes they have emigrated like bees, in regular and connected swarms.
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Navigating the American Revolution
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Epilogue From Seaport to Sentry Post: The Decline of Maritime Bermuda, 1783–1820
- Conclusion Fate, Contingency, and the Development of Maritime America
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End Matter
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