Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY ADVERTISEMENT
- SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- Notes on the picture of COLUMBUS, and his Sons DIEGO and FERDINAND
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- BOOK I A GENERAL VIEW OF THEIR ANCIENT STATE AND INHABITANTS
- BOOK II JAMAICA
- BOOK III ENGLISH CHARAIBEAN ISLANDS
- CHAP. I Barbadoes
- CHAP. II Grenada and its Dependencies
- CHAP. III Saint Vincent and its Dependencies, and Dominica
- CHAP. IV Leeward Charaibean Island Government, comprehending Saint Christopher's, Nevis, Antigua, Montserrat, and the Virgin Islands
- Appendix
- Plate section
- Plate section
- Plate section
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY ADVERTISEMENT
- SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR
- Contents
- LIST OF PLATES
- Notes on the picture of COLUMBUS, and his Sons DIEGO and FERDINAND
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- BOOK I A GENERAL VIEW OF THEIR ANCIENT STATE AND INHABITANTS
- BOOK II JAMAICA
- BOOK III ENGLISH CHARAIBEAN ISLANDS
- CHAP. I Barbadoes
- CHAP. II Grenada and its Dependencies
- CHAP. III Saint Vincent and its Dependencies, and Dominica
- CHAP. IV Leeward Charaibean Island Government, comprehending Saint Christopher's, Nevis, Antigua, Montserrat, and the Virgin Islands
- Appendix
- Plate section
- Plate section
- Plate section
Summary
JAMAICA, as we have seen, was conquered from the Spaniards, during the protectorate of Cromwell, in the year 1655, by an armament under the command of Admiral Penn and General Venables. The Spanish inhabitants are said to have possessed, before the attack, about 1500 enslaved Africans, most of whom, on the surrender of their masters, retreated to the mountains, from whence they made frequent excursions to harass the English. Major-general Sedgewick, one of the British officers, in a letter to Secretary Thurloe (1656) predicts, that these blacks would prove a thorn in the sides of the English. He adds, that they gave no quarter to his men, but destroyed them whenever they found opportunity; scarce a week passing without their murdering one or more of them; and as the soldiers became more confident and careless, the negroes grew more enterprising and bloody-mioded.
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- The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West IndiesWith a Continuation to the Present TimePublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1819