Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660Oxford University Press, 2003 - 217 oldal 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'. |
Tartalomjegyzék
Introduction | 1 |
First Impressions | 13 |
Establishing a Colony 16251660 | 29 |
Transplanting Institutions | 58 |
Making Money in the English Atlantic Economy | 88 |
Finding Workers | 113 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
acres America Andrew White Antoine Biet Arawaks Archibald Hay arrived Assembly Atlantic Ayscue Barbadian Barbados planters Beckles Breife Discription Bridgetown Briefe Relation Bristol British Cambridge Campbell Caribbean Charles Church colonies cotton Council Minutes Court Courteen crop CSPC cultivation Daniel Searle Davis Papers decade Dutch Earl of Carlisle Early Barbadian History Early Barbados England Envelope Exact History Father Andrew White George governor Hay Papers Henry Hawley Henry Winthrop History of Barbados Holdip Huncks Ibid indentured servants island James Parker JBMHS John Winthrop Journal labour land Lord Memoirs militia Modyford parish Parliament peace Peter Hay Philip Bell plantation Powell purchase Quakers Richard Ligon Roundheads royalist settlement seventeenth century ships Sir Edmund Verney Sir Henry Colt slave trade Slavery Spoeri Sugar and Slaves Thomas Modyford Thomas Verney Thurloe tobacco True & Exact Tufton Uchteritz Verney Letters Verney to Sir vestry visitors West Indies William Powrey Willoughby Winthrop Papers Wolverston