1st Edition

The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Vol 3

448 Pages
by Routledge

1888 Pages
by Routledge

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.

Settling Anon., A True Description of Jamaica, with the Fertility, Commodities, and Healthfulness of the Place (1657); E[dmund] H[ickeringill], Jamaica Viewed (1661); Thomas Trapham, A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica (1679); F[rancis] H[anson], A Short Account of the Island and Government Thereof (1683); Anon., The Present State of Jamaica (1683); John Poyntz, The Present Prospect of the Famous and Fertile Island of Tobago (1683) Labour James Hay, Second Earl of Carlisle, A Declaration by James, Earl of Carlile, Lord of the Caribee Islands (1647); Marcellus Rivers and Oxenbridge Foyle, Englands Slavery, or Barbados Merchandize (1659); Anon., A True and Impartial Naration of the Remarkable Providences of the Living God of Heaven and Earth (1664); Anon., One Cry More of the Innocent and Oppressed for Justice (1665); [Mary Carleton], News from Jamaica in a Letter from Port Royal (1671); T. M., A Letter from Jamaica to a Friend in London ([1682]); Henry Pitman, A Relation of the Great Sufferings and Strange Adventures of Henry Pitman (1689); John Coad, 'A Memorandum of the Wonderful Providences of God... in and after the Revolution between the Duke of Monmouth and King James' (c.1691) Slave Uprisings G. W., 'Letter from Barbados, dated 30 November 1675' (1676); Anon., A Brief, But Most True Relation of the Late Barbarous and Bloody Plot of the Negro's in the Island of Barbados (1693) Local Governance Barbados Assembly, Acts and Statutes of the Island of Barbados ([c.1654]); Anon., A Brief and True Remonstrance of the Illegall Proceedings of Roger Osburn ([c.1654]); Robert Sanford [and William Byam ], Surinam Justice (1662); [William Byam], An Exact Relation of the Most Execrable Attempts of John Allin, Committed on ... Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham, Captain General of Guiana and of all the Caribby-Islands (1665); Anon., The State of Jamaica, Printed with The Laws of Jamaica (1684) Editorial Notes List of Sources

Biography

Carla Gardina Pestana is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World. Her research interests include American history, US religious history and the early modern world. She has received multiple awards, grants and fellowship, including first prize in 1987 for Liberty of Conscience and the Growth of Religious Diversity in Early America, 1636-1786 (1986) by the Rare Books and Manuscript Division of the ALA. Sharon V Salinger is Professor of History and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of California - Irvine, where her interests include Early America, social history and gender. She is the author of Taverns and Drinking in Early America (2004) and more recently, the co-author of Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston (2014).