Electronic version of Richard Ligon's "A True and Exact History of Barbados" (1657)

Thanks to David Chan Smith, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University an electronic teaching edition of Richard Ligon's "A True and Exact History of Barbados" (1657) is now available at:


The edition includes a basic introduction and footnotes for this important early modern Caribbean text. The text is also set in modern typescript. It is freely available for public distribution and undergraduate teaching thanks to the generosity of the Text Creation Partnership and Harvard University Libraries.

It is hoped that the text will evolve as a collaborative editing project whereby readers can contribute additional footnotes or information that will then be recompiled into a new edition.

http://www.wlu.ca/docsnpubs.php?grp_id=12753