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Book True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes

Download or read book True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes written by Richard Ligon and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1673 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eye-witness history of Barbados, Ligon gives perhaps the earliest account of attempts at sugar manufacture. His description of a plantation indicates the size and complexity of the estates acquired in Barbados by subtle and greedy' planters, even in the early days of the industry.

Book A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados

Download or read book A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados written by Richard Ligon and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the one major, book-length English chronicle and natural history of the Caribbean published in the seventeenth century, written at the time of experimental adoption of the sugar / African slavery complex that would come to characterise the Caribbean for two hundred years, to such disastrous effects, Ligon's True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados is a -- if not the -- central text that records and, in part, worries over this transformation.

Book A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados

Download or read book A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados written by Richard Ligon and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. [It] allows one to see the contested process behind the making of the Caribbean sugar/African slavery complex. Kupperman is one of the leading scholars of the early modern Atlantic world. . . . I cannot think of any scholar better prepared to write an Introduction that places Ligon, his text, and Barbados in an Atlantic historical context. The Introduction is quite thorough, readable, and accurate; the notes [are] exemplary! --Susan Parrish, University of Michigan

Book A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes

Download or read book A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes written by Richard Ligon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eye-witness history of Barbados, Ligon gives perhaps the earliest account of attempts at sugar manufacture. His description of a plantation indicates the size and complexity of the estates acquired in Barbados by subtle and greedy' planters, even in the early days of the industry.

Book A True   Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes

Download or read book A True Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes written by Richard Ligon and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Race in Early Modern England

Download or read book Race in Early Modern England written by J. Burton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 seventeenth century England. A comprehensive introduction shows how these writings are crucial for understanding the pre-Enlightenment lineages of racial categories.

Book The First Black Slave Society

Download or read book The First Black Slave Society written by Hilary Beckles and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book describes the brutal Black slave society and plantation system of Barbados and explains how this slave chattel model was perfected by the British and exported to Jamaica and South Carolina for profit. There is special emphasis on the role of the concept of white supremacy in shaping social structure and economic relations that allowed slavery to continue. The book concludes with information on how slavery was finally outlawed in Barbados, in spite of white resistance.

Book  A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes   1647 1650

Download or read book A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes 1647 1650 written by Richard Ligon and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Versions of Blackness

Download or read book Versions of Blackness written by Derek Hughes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-16 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko (1688) is one of the most widely studied works of seventeenth-century literature, because of its powerful representation of slavery and complex portrayal of ways in which differing races and cultures - European, Black African, and Native American - observe and misinterpret each other. This edition presents a new edition of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly full and informative commentary, along with complete texts of three major British seventeenth-century works concerned with race and colonialism: Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines (1668), Behn's Abdelazer (1676), and Thomas Southerne's tragedy Oroonoko (1696). It combines these with a rich anthology of European discussions of slavery, racial difference, and colonial conquest from the mid-sixteenth century to the time of Behn's death. Many are taken from important works that have not hitherto been easily available, and the collection offers an unrivaled resource for studying the culture that produced Britain's first major fictions of slavery.

Book TRUE   EXACT HIST OF THE ISLAN

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  • Author : Richard Ligon
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2016-09-08
  • ISBN : 9781333503710
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book TRUE EXACT HIST OF THE ISLAN written by Richard Ligon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados: Illustrated With a Mapp of the Island, as Also the Principall Trees and Plants There, Set Forth in Their Due Proportions and Shapes, Drawne Out by Their Severall and Respective Scales In this doubtfull condition I took my leave with an afiurance, that I {hould never finde two fuch parallel Paragons in my whole fearch through the World And the reafon of their fo great like ne e and lu re', was they were Sillers and Twins 5 as I was after informed by a Hermite, that came often to vifit us, when we came on land, as we often did, and no: fat off from his Cell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Book A True  and  Exact History of the Island of Barbados  P

Download or read book A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados P written by Richard Ligon and published by . This book was released on 1654 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sugar Barons

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  • Author : Matthew Parker
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2011-08-23
  • ISBN : 0802777996
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book The Sugar Barons written by Matthew Parker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar-a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold." As Matthew Parker vividly chronicles in his sweeping history, the sugar revolution made the English, in particular, a nation of voracious consumers-so much so that the wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture. While sugar came to dictate imperial policy, for those on the ground the British West Indian empire presented a disturbing moral universe. Parker brilliantly interweaves the human stories of those since lost to history whose fortunes and fame rose and fell with sugar. Their industry drove the development of the North American mainland states, and with it a slave culture, as the plantation model was exported to the warm, southern states. Broad in scope, rich in detail, The Sugar Barons freshly links the histories of Europe, the West Indies, and North America and reveals the full impact of the sugar revolution, the resonance of which is still felt today.

Book Englishmen Transplanted

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  • Author : Larry Dale Gragg
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780199253890
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Englishmen Transplanted written by Larry Dale Gragg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Gragg challenges the prevailing view of the seventeenth-century English planters of Barbados as architects of a social disaster. Most historians have described them as profligate and immoral, as grasping capitalists who exploited their servants and slaves in a quest for quick riches inthe cultivation of sugar. Yet, they were more than rapacious entrepreneurs. Like English emigrants to other regions in the empire, sugar planters transplanted many familiar governmental and legal institutions, eagerly started families, abided traditional views about the social order, and resistedcompromises in their diet, apparel, and housing, despite their tropical setting. Seldom becoming absentee planters, these Englishmen developed an extraordinary attraction to Barbados, where they saw themselves, as one group of planters explained in a petition, as 'being Englishmentransplanted'.

Book Sugar in the Blood

Download or read book Sugar in the Blood written by Andrea Stuart and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of an acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte: a stunning history of the interdependence of sugar, slavery, and colonial settlement in the New World--from the 17th century to the present.

Book Captain Blood

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  • Author : Rafael Sabatini
  • Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
  • Release : 2023-07-19
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Captain Blood written by Rafael Sabatini and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Straggling, Excited Groups Were Mainly Composed Of Men With Green Boughs In Their Hats And The Most Ludicrous Of Weapons In Their Hands. Some, It Is True, Shouldered Fowling Pieces, And Here And There A Sword Was Brandished; But More Of Them Were Armed With Clubs, And Most Of Them Trailed The Mammoth Pikes Fashioned Out Of Scythes, As Formidable To The Eye As They Were Clumsy To The Hand. There Were Weavers, Brewers, Carpenters, Smiths, Masons, Bricklayers, Cobblers, And Representatives Of Every Other Of The Trades Of Peace Among These Improvised Men Of War. Bridgewater, Like Taunton, Had Yielded So Generously Of Its Manhood To The Service Of The Bastard Duke That For Any To Abstain Whose Age And Strength Admitted Of His Bearing Arms Was To Brand Himself A Coward Or A Papist...FROM THE BOOKS.

Book True   Exact History of the Island of Barbados

Download or read book True Exact History of the Island of Barbados written by Richard Ligon Gent and published by . This book was released on 1657 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sweet Negotiations

Download or read book Sweet Negotiations written by Russell R. Menard and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell Menard argues that the emergence of black slavery in Barbados preceded the rise of sugar. He shows that Barbados was well on its way to becoming a plantation colony and a slave society before sugar emerged as the dominant crop. He sheds light on the origins of the integrated plantation, gang labour, and slave economy.