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The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700 Vol 3, EPUB eBook

The Early English Caribbean, 1570-1700 Vol 3 EPUB

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This four-volume collection brings together rare pamphlets from the formative years of the English involvement in the Caribbean.

Texts presented in the volumes cover the first impressions of the region, imperial rivalries between European traders and settlers and the experience of day-to-day life in the colonies.

Volume 3: Living in the Caribbean Once settlements were firmly established articles began to appear promoting the way of life to those back at home.

Numerous texts advertised the climate, the crops and the social life, and the recruitment of settlers generated a literature offering land, liberty and other benefits to those who migrated.

Recruiting labour on the islands presented a particular problem.

A transatlantic trade in servants was developed initially and some groups, including Quakers, and those convicted after the Monmouth Rebellion, were coerced into settling, but in the end the colonists came to rely on slavery.

Sources document the growing involvement of English traders in the sale of enslaved Africans as well as the development of laws and the administration of justice on the islands.

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