Indian Slaves from Guiana in Seventeenth-Century Barbados.
The economy of Barbados benefited both from the labor of Indian captives and from their isolated position away from indigenous zones of conflict and economic competition. The Anglo-Barbadians accessed labor in Guiana, the region between the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers. Barbados was a secure location,...
| Publicado en: | Ethnohistory Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 65 - 91 |
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