Title: Englishmen transplanted
Description: This volume challenges the widely accepted view of 17th-century Barbados planters as reckless fortune seekers who failed to create a viable society in the tropics. Rather, it argues they were settlers eager to transplant what was familiar to them.
Subjects: Civilization, Colonization, Economic conditions, English, History, Plantation life, Planters, Social conditions, Barbados, Farmers, Sugarcane, Plantation owners
Places: Barbados
Time periods: 17th century