Providence Island, 1630-1641 The Other Puritan Colony

Name: Providence Island, 1630-1641 The Other Puritan Colony
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ISBN: 9780521558358

ISBN-10: 0521558352

ISBN-13: 9780521558358

Edition: N/A

Authors: Karen Ordahl Kupperman

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Providence Island was founded in 1630 at the same time as Massachusetts Bay by English puritans who thought an island off the coast of Nicaragua was far more promising than the cold, rocky shores of New England. Although they expected theirs to become a model godly society, the settlement never succeeded in building the kind of united and orderly community that the New Englanders created. In fact, they began large-scale use of slaves, and plunged into the privateering that invited the colony's extinction by the Spanish in 1641. As a well-planned and well-financed failure, Providence Island offers historians a standard by which to judge other colonies. By examining the failure of Providence…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/30/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 412
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



List of maps


Preface


Author's note



The Providence Island company and its colony: the program



Founding a colony on Providence Island



Contested authority: the governorship of Captain Philip Bell



Frustrated hopes for economic development



Land and society: the middling planters



Servants into slaves



Military requirements and the people's response



The turbulent religious life of Providence Island



Governing puritan privateers: the governorships of Robert Hunt and Nathaniel Butler



The business history of the Providence Island company



The end and persistence of Providence Island


Appendixes


Biographical essay


Index