Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1600 1776 is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitts that covers all four islands in the period from their independence from Barbados in 1670 up to the outbreak of the American Revolution, which reshaped the Caribbean as well as the mainland American colonies. Natalie A. Zacek emphasizes the extent to which the planters of these islands attempted to establish recognizably English societies in tropical islands based on plantation agriculture and African slavery. By...
Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1600 1776 is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands Antigua, Mo...
