ligon's

Updated: May 27, 2025

Steele, speaking of some of the old cruel laws of Barbadoes, applies them to the case before us in these words: "As, according to Ligon's account, there were not above two-thirds of the island in plantations in the year 1650, we must suppose that in the year 1688 the great number of African-born slaves brought into the plantations in chains, and compelled to labour by the terrors of corporal punishment, might have made it appear necessary to enact a temporary law so harsh as the statute No. 82; but when the great majority of the Negroes were become vernacular, born in the island, naturalized by language, and familiarised by custom, did not policy as well as humanity require: them to be put under milder conditions, such as were granted to the slaves of our Saxon ancestors?"

Thomas Clarkson - Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies : With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure.

A work of sterling merit, and if read in conjunction with the following to supply the natural history of the island, will leave little to be known respecting this important island. Pat. Brown's Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. 1756. folio. Ligon's History of Barbadoes. 1695. 8vo. Labat Voyage aux Isles de l'Amerique. La Haye, 1724. 6 vols. 12mo.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 : Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and : Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth : Century, By William Stevenson