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My study investigates the crossroads of a number of frameworks which exclude a country frequently considered outside ‘The Caribbean’ and “The Atlantic” but often nominally referenced throughout the region’s historic record. While neither the Atlantic / Black Atlantic, nor the Caribbean / Circum-Caribbean include The Bahamas within their strictly drawn lines of definition, I extend Muller’s new framework of the Gulf World as a geo-political space that seeks connection between the U.S., Mexico and Cuba in order to problematize and ultimately step away from the old nationalist frame that puts only one country at the center. To deepen our understanding of transnationalism through The Bahamas, I engage the movement of ships as used by trade partners.When we re-visit the archive, as archival scholars urge we do, there is a ferocious and multifarious, distinctly transnational history that highlights the mobility of people at a time when it is imagined slaves only moved as chattel. We also imagine within scholarship that highlights capitalist moves of slave-traders and slave-owners that their lives were passed exclusively in plantation model economies that do little to extend contemporary understanding of the long and arduous amounts of time passed on ships. While records archived in the traditional nationalist manner can lend very little to re-imagining the transitory space of the ship, I suggest The Bahamas Archive can begin to fill in many holes."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Intersecting Frameworks through the Maritime Highway of the Bahamas: Re-Mapping the Nassau Archive 1783-1834"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Muller, Dalia","Transnational Studies - American Studies","Africana and American Studies"],"dc:creator":["Feller, Lisa; 0000-0002-4256-9487"],"dc:date":["2019-10-29T16:48:11Z","2019","2019-08-08 14:59:58"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","This dissertation examines the crucial role of a previously neglected archipelago of islands - The Bahamas - to an ambitious re-reading of the archive, and the furtherance of maritime study in especially “aqueous territory” (Bassi) with a deeply “aquaticculture” (Dawson). 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