Ethnohistorian Frances Karttunen documents the diversity of Nantucket’s population through the centuries. Beginning with the people already resident when English settlement began in 1659, Karttunen chronicles survivals, arrivals, and changes.
The Other Islanders is available for purchase at the NHA Museum Shop. Or you can view the contents in the PDFs below.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Strangers, Coofs and Washashores
I. Nantucket’s First People of Color
Part 1. Wampanoags, The Ancient Proprietors
Part 2. Coexistence with the English
Part 3. African Nantucketers
Part 4. Building Community
II. Ocean Islanders
Part 1. Across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
Part 2. Portuguese Atlantic Islands
Part 3. To and From Jamaica
III. Nantucket and The World’s People
Part 1. Nantucket and the World’s People
IV. Coming to Work, Staying to Live
Part 1. Approaching the Twentieth Century
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
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