In this eye-witness history of Barbados, Ligon gives perhaps the earliest account of attempts at sugar manufacture. His description of a plantation indicates th

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

In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in B

Lists persons with Scottish surnames listed in a variety of surviving records for Barbados, including church records.

This collection makes available for the first time a rich archive of materials that illuminate the history of racial thought and practices in sixteenth and seve