A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados | Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. ~ Richard Ligon

A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados

Richard Ligon

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Imprint: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 05/2024
Pages: 208
Print ISBN: 9781600000000
eBook ISBN: 9781603847711

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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