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

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

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

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