A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados: illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective scales : together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the severall houses, roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processe of sugar-making

Ligon, Richard (Author)

First Edition - London, England : Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's Armes in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1657

English

In 1647, Richard Ligon travelled to Barbados with a group of royalist exiles as an aid to the planter, Thomas Modyford. He spent three years in Barbados, working as a plantation manager, before returning to England in 1650, because of illness. In England he was arrested and imprisoned for debt. While in prison between 1650 and 1653 he composed the True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados --- a survey of the natural, social, and economic phenomena he had observed during his three year stay in Barbados. He included his own map of the island, the first produced by a European, and numerous other pictures, including sketches of plant-life, architecture and machinery used in the production of sugar.

Histories
Travel Narratives
Obeah Narratives
Inkle
Yarico
Modyford, Thomas
Barbados

[ca. 1650-1653]

1657

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Ligon, Richard. A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1657.