Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony

by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521558352
• ISBN13: 9780521558358
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"