Related Books

True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes
Language: en
Pages: 122
Authors: Richard Ligon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1673 - Publisher: Psychology Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this eye-witness history of Barbados, Ligon gives perhaps the earliest account of attempts at sugar manufacture. His description of a plantation indicates th
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Richard Ligon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-12 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados is the most significant book-length English text written about the Caribbean in the seventeenth century
Race in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: J. Burton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-20 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in sixteenth and seve
Caribbeana
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Thomas W. Krise
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Although the colonies in the West Indies were as important to the expanding British empire as those in North America, writings from the British West Indies have
In Miserable Slavery
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Douglas Hall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786) was a British estate overseer and small landowner in western Jamaica. He arrived in Jamaica, the most important of the British su