Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660

Larry Dale Gragg

Oxford University Press, 2003 - History - 217 pages

"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 in the 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 by traditional views about the social order, and resisted compromises 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 Englishmen transplanted'."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

• II: 1
• III: 13
• IV: 29
• V: 58
• VI: 88
• VII: 113
• VIII: 132
• IX: 152
• X: 182
• XI: 193
• XII: 213

Popular passages

Page 197 - A brief and perfect journal of the late Proceedings and success of the English Army in the West Indies, continued until June the 24th, 1655.‎

About the author

Larry Gragg is a Professor of History, University of Missouri-Rolla.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados, 1627-1660
• Author: Larry Dale Gragg
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0199253897, 9780199253890
• Length: 217 pages
• Subjects: History / Caribbean & West Indies / General; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / World