1986
DOI: 10.2307/2596182
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Little England: Plantation Society and Anglo-Barbadian Politics, 1627-1700.

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“…It was colonised by the English gentry in the mid‐17 th century. Only decades after English settlement, sugarcane was introduced to the island and by the 18 th century most of the population were enslaved Africans (Puckrein 1984). Free and enslaved populations of colour lived in differing degrees between precarious freedom and social, economic, and physical enslavement (Fuentes 2016).…”
Section: Claiming Family Landmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It was colonised by the English gentry in the mid‐17 th century. Only decades after English settlement, sugarcane was introduced to the island and by the 18 th century most of the population were enslaved Africans (Puckrein 1984). Free and enslaved populations of colour lived in differing degrees between precarious freedom and social, economic, and physical enslavement (Fuentes 2016).…”
Section: Claiming Family Landmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Despite difficulties in plantation work that must have resulted from communicative barriers, the elites, long concerned that a shared language among the enslaved would be dangerous (Ligon 1657, 46), continued to object to their linguistic assimilation. In 1668 William Willoughby, the Governor of Barbados, wrote, “although the different tongues and animosities among slaves had inhibited their revolts in the past, the creolian generations now growing up and increasing may hereafter ‘manicipate’ their masters” (Puckerein 1984, 165). Likewise, in 1680, opposing the Christianization of the enslaved, The Planters' Committee of Barbados claimed: “the disproportion of the blacks to whites being great, the whites have no greater security than the diversity of the negroes' languages, which would be destroyed by conversion in that it would be necessary to teach them all English” (Bridenbaugh and Bridenbaugh 1972, 356).…”
Section: From Apartheid To Incorporation3mentioning
confidence: 99%