Richard Ligon > Quotes

“Rats moved off English ships and invaded all American colonies. They proved to be more successful colonizers than the humans and created havoc. Sugar,”
― Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados

“he wrote that slaves ate meat only once a year and the rest of the time their only food was potatoes: “there is no nation which feeds it slaves as badly as the English.”
― Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados

“The advent of sugar cultivation made the Caribbean islands the most desirable American lands because of the riches they brought to the planters and to England.”
― Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados