“Rats moved off English ships and invaded all American colonies. They proved to be more successful colonizers than the humans and created havoc. Sugar,””
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
Quotes by Richard Ligon
“he wrote that slaves ate meat only once a year and the rest of the time their only food was potatoes: “there is no nation which feeds it slaves as badly as the English.””
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
“The advent of sugar cultivation made the Caribbean islands the most desirable American lands because of the riches they brought to the planters and to England.””
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados
Richard Ligon
Richard Ligon was an English writer whose life was marked by the upheaval of the English Civil War and his subsequent adventures in the Caribbean. A royalist, he lost his fortune during the conflict a...