Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints: An Atlantic History of Bermuda, 1609–1684 (Early America: History, Context, Culture)

This social and cultural history of seventeenth-century Bermuda recounts the colony's development under the Virginia and Bermuda companies, with particular emphasis on how multiracial, multicultural interaction, a distinct maritime island environment, a pervasive Puritan religious culture, and thickening ties with other Anglo-American colonies created a distinctive new American-Bermudian identity. Puritanism, slavery, family tobacco farming, overcrowding, and out-migration shaped Bermuda's development and a growing network of Atlantic linkages that islanders formed that primed it to become a major maritime hub in the age of sail--

• | Author: Michael J. Jarvis
• | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 14, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 496 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1421443600
• | ISBN-13: 9781421443607