The West Indies

The Seventeenth Century saw the rise of the West Indies as the most important colonies of England.  They were the most important because they produced abundant crops of sugar and sugar was what greased the financial wheels for the entire colonial enterprise.  It afforded the profits and covered the losses to fuel a growing empire,Continue reading “The West Indies”

Puritans and Indians

The Puritans didn’t see the land they colonized as pristine, which it wasn’t, and they didn’t see it as merely undeveloped, which it wasn’t, instead they saw it as a “hideous and desolate wilderness full of wild beasts and wild men.”  With such an outlook is it any wonder that they looked upon the landContinue reading “Puritans and Indians”