Ten, Ten The Bible Ten : Obeah in the Bahamas

Dr. Timothy McCartney
Nassau: Timpaul Publishing (1976)

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Additional references and notes are given in the footnotes of this book.

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OFFICIAL COMMITNICATIONS

1. Many important documents dealing with varied aspects of Bahamian history can be found in the Registry, the House of Assembly Library and the Nassau Public Library. The most comprehensive documentation however, can be found in the Bahamas Archives Department.

2. Other informative material can be obtained from the Institute of Jamaica, the Public Records Office in London, The Carnegie Institute in Washington, and Manuscripts in the British Museum.

3. BOARD OF TRADE RECORDS TO 1837 (B.T.6:)
B.T.6: Vols. 9-11: Slave Trade Enquiry—Copies of certain of the evidence submitted to the Committee of Council for Trade and Plantations in the course of their enquiry into the state of the African Slave Trade.
R.T.6:g: - 1788; B.T.6: 10 - 1788; B.T.6: 1788-89.

4. BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (BPP)
HPP: Vol. XVII 1818: Papers relating to the Treatment of Slaves in the Colonies.
BPP: Vol. XX 1831-1832: Report from the select committee on the Extinction of Slavery throughout the British Dominions; with the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index, p.1.

NEWSPAPERS

Nassau Guardian
The Tribune
The People (Wednesday, 6th January, 1974 Thursday, 17th January, 1974)
Santa Monica Evening Outlook 24th June, 1971

MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS

Bahamian Review—Vol. 15 No. 1-2, 1973.
Cosmopolitan—June, 1974 issue.
Ebony–
Jamaican Law Journal - April, 1974.
Jamaican Journal - Vol. 3 No. 2 June, 1969
(Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica)
(a) "Revival Cults in Jamaica. Notes towards a Sociology of Religion" by Edward Seaga.
(b) "Obeah and the Supernatural in West Indian Literature" by Kenneth Ramchand
TIME—"Boom Times on the Psychic Frontier".
DAEDALUS - Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Mass.,—Spring, 1974.
Slavery, Colonialism and Racism. "The African presence in Caribbean literature", by Edward Kamau Brathwaite. (Reprinted by permission).

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KIFARIT - Vol. 3 No. 1, Freeport, Grand Bahama, 1974. "Tony Makay is Exuma the Obeah Man".
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SKYWRITINGS—Creative Communications Inc., Kingston, Jamaica.
"Everything you wanted to know about Obeah and were afraid to ask" – by Errol W. Bowen.
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY Vol. XXXVIII - 1891.
THE MESSAGE—Vol. 40 No. 6, September, 1974.
HARPERS' Magazine, U.S.A., 1926.
"White Magic & Black..." by John W. Vandercook.
SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR - 2(9) 8-14, 1972.
"Witchcraft and Sex" by Robert D. Anderson.
BAHAMAS HANDBOOK - Etienne Dupuch Jr. Publications. 1970 Edition. "Bahamian Way of Death".

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