Larry Gragg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1087945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Gragg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Gragg |
| SIGNATURE | GRAGG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Missouri University of Science and Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘To Procure Negroes’: The English Slave Trade to Barbados, 1627-60
In August 1645, George Downing, a twenty-two-year-old chaplain aboard an English vessel, wrote a letter to his cousin John Winthrop, Jr. about his five-month voyage to the West Indies. In early 1644, Pennoyer obtained a 60 acre plantation from Charles Stobart, along with the servants to work the fields. Beyond obtaining slaves both to sell in the lucrative Barbados labour market and to work his sugar fields, Pennoyer, an absentee planter, was a f…
Stigma Cities: The Reputation and History of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. By Jonathan Foster
Stigma Cities is an intriguing book. Jonathan Foster, a professor of history at Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada, seeks to understand how “the stigmatization of a place for being abnormal or even deviant often creates a reputation-based identity that can be impactful and long lived” (p. 3). Foster is personally familiar with two of the locales. He grew up in Birmingham, and he earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.…
Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt
Since the 1690s, a multitude of analysts have offered explanations of the witch crisis in Massachusetts. Contemporaries sought to understand the role of Satan in the accusations, but with their passing, subsequent commentators assigned blame to human agents. Thomas Hutchinson in the eighteenth century, Charles Upham in the nineteenth century, and Marion Starkey in the twentieth century saw the accusing girls of Salem as the key to understanding w…
Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World, written by Michael Guasco
A Big Step to Oblivion for Las Vegas?” The “Battle of the Bare Bosoms,” 1957-59: A Big Step to Oblivion for Las Vegas
Chapter One. Introduction
This introductory chapter places this study in the context of previous work done by historians on early Barbados. Because the argument of the book is focused on how settlers on Barbados sought to transplant their culture to a tropical setting, it also examines the nature of what it meant to be English in the early 17th century. Several traits in England — geographic mobility, a concern with disorder, anti-Catholicism, faith in the common law, and…
Chapter Three. Establishing a Colony, 1625–1660
This chapter provides a chronological account of the development of the colony to the Restoration of Charles II. Discord dominated the colony's earliest years. Conflicting proprietary patents triggered a struggle between a merchant and a courtier, both of whom sent governors and shiploads of settlers and supplies to the island. Through the 1630s, surviving governors ruled with an iron hand. Two developments in the 1640s, however, permitted the pl…
'Englishmen Transplanted': The English Colonization of Barbados 1627-1660
Larry Gragg challenges the prevailing view of the seventeenth-century English planters of Barbados as architects of a social disaster. Most historians have described them as profligate and immoral, as grasping capitalists who exploited their servants and slaves in a quest for quick riches in the cultivation of sugar. Yet, they were more than rapacious entrepreneurs. Like English emigrants to other regions in the empire, sugar planters transplante…
The Pious and the Profane: The Religious Life of Early Barbados Planters
(1999). The Pious and the Profane: The Religious Life of Early Barbados Planters. The Historian: Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 265-284
The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692
To procure Negroes’: The English slave trade to Barbados, 1627–60
The Salem Witch Crisis
Preface the Mists of Darkness: Occult Beliefs and Practices in Early New England Strife in the Community: Life in Salem Village Devil Hath Been Raised Amongst Us The Crisis Grows The Witches of Salem: A Break with the Past In a Stinking Gaol: Prison Conditions for the Accused Crushing the Witch Conspiracy The End of the Trials Through the Clouds of Human Weakness Afterword: Interpretations Bibliography Index
Loyal Dissenter: The Life and Times of Robert Pike
Journal Article Loyal Dissenter: The Life and Times of Robert Pike. By Roland L. Warren. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1992. vi + 248 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8191-8472-1.) Get access Larry Gragg Larry Gragg University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 639–640, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079894 Published: 01 S…
A Puritan in the West Indies: The Career of Samuel Winthrop
ARLY in i 646, Samuel, youngest son of John Winthrop, wrote two letters Tenerife in Canary Islands to his father back in Boston. The two letters are filled with anxiety of a nineteenyear-old living in a time of economic, political, and religious confusion. Hoping to persuade his father to let him take a job as a merchant's clerk on Tenerife, Samuel shared his deepest concerns. He worried that God had yet to reveal to him evidence of spiritual reb…
A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720
Journal Article A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653–1720. By Larry Gragg. (Westport: Greenwood, 1990. xxii + 214 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-313-27282-4.) Get access A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653–1720. By Gragg Larry. (Westport: Greenwood, 1990. xxii + 214 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-313-27282-4.) David D. Hall David D. Hall Harvard Divinity School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Journal Article Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution. By Bernard Bailyn. (New York: Knopf, 1986. xxvii + 668 pp. $30.00.) Get access Larry Gragg Larry Gragg University of Missouri, Rolla Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 497–498, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900052 Published: 01 September 198…
Migration in Early America: The Virginia Quaker Experience
Migration in Early America: The Virginia Quaker Experience
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Journal Article Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution. By Bernard Bailyn. (New York: Knopf, 1986. xxvii + 668 pp. $30.00.) Get access Larry Gragg Larry Gragg University of Missouri, Rolla Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 497–498, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900052 Published: 01 September 198…
A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653-1720
Journal Article A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653–1720. By Larry Gragg. (Westport: Greenwood, 1990. xxii + 214 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-313-27282-4.) Get access A Quest for Security: The Life of Samuel Parris, 1653–1720. By Gragg Larry. (Westport: Greenwood, 1990. xxii + 214 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-313-27282-4.) David D. Hall David D. Hall Harvard Divinity School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…
The Salem Witch Crisis
Preface the Mists of Darkness: Occult Beliefs and Practices in Early New England Strife in the Community: Life in Salem Village Devil Hath Been Raised Amongst Us The Crisis Grows The Witches of Salem: A Break with the Past In a Stinking Gaol: Prison Conditions for the Accused Crushing the Witch Conspiracy The End of the Trials Through the Clouds of Human Weakness Afterword: Interpretations Bibliography Index
Loyal Dissenter: The Life and Times of Robert Pike
Journal Article Loyal Dissenter: The Life and Times of Robert Pike. By Roland L. Warren. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1992. vi + 248 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8191-8472-1.) Get access Larry Gragg Larry Gragg University of Missouri, Rolla, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 639–640, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079894 Published: 01 S…
A Puritan in the West Indies: The Career of Samuel Winthrop
ARLY in i 646, Samuel, youngest son of John Winthrop, wrote two letters Tenerife in Canary Islands to his father back in Boston. The two letters are filled with anxiety of a nineteenyear-old living in a time of economic, political, and religious confusion. Hoping to persuade his father to let him take a job as a merchant's clerk on Tenerife, Samuel shared his deepest concerns. He worried that God had yet to reveal to him evidence of spiritual reb…
Salem Story: Reading the Witch Trials of 1692
To procure Negroes’: The English slave trade to Barbados, 1627–60
The Devil's Disciples: Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
The Pious and the Profane: The Religious Life of Early Barbados Planters
(1999). The Pious and the Profane: The Religious Life of Early Barbados Planters. The Historian: Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 265-284
Chapter One. Introduction
This introductory chapter places this study in the context of previous work done by historians on early Barbados. Because the argument of the book is focused on how settlers on Barbados sought to transplant their culture to a tropical setting, it also examines the nature of what it meant to be English in the early 17th century. Several traits in England — geographic mobility, a concern with disorder, anti-Catholicism, faith in the common law, and…
Chapter Three. Establishing a Colony, 1625–1660
This chapter provides a chronological account of the development of the colony to the Restoration of Charles II. Discord dominated the colony's earliest years. Conflicting proprietary patents triggered a struggle between a merchant and a courtier, both of whom sent governors and shiploads of settlers and supplies to the island. Through the 1630s, surviving governors ruled with an iron hand. Two developments in the 1640s, however, permitted the pl…
'Englishmen Transplanted': The English Colonization of Barbados 1627-1660
Larry Gragg challenges the prevailing view of the seventeenth-century English planters of Barbados as architects of a social disaster. Most historians have described them as profligate and immoral, as grasping capitalists who exploited their servants and slaves in a quest for quick riches in the cultivation of sugar. Yet, they were more than rapacious entrepreneurs. Like English emigrants to other regions in the empire, sugar planters transplante…
A Big Step to Oblivion for Las Vegas?” The “Battle of the Bare Bosoms,” 1957-59: A Big Step to Oblivion for Las Vegas
Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World, written by Michael Guasco
Switching Sides: How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt
Since the 1690s, a multitude of analysts have offered explanations of the witch crisis in Massachusetts. Contemporaries sought to understand the role of Satan in the accusations, but with their passing, subsequent commentators assigned blame to human agents. Thomas Hutchinson in the eighteenth century, Charles Upham in the nineteenth century, and Marion Starkey in the twentieth century saw the accusing girls of Salem as the key to understanding w…
Stigma Cities: The Reputation and History of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. By Jonathan Foster
Stigma Cities is an intriguing book. Jonathan Foster, a professor of history at Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada, seeks to understand how “the stigmatization of a place for being abnormal or even deviant often creates a reputation-based identity that can be impactful and long lived” (p. 3). Foster is personally familiar with two of the locales. He grew up in Birmingham, and he earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.…
‘To Procure Negroes’: The English Slave Trade to Barbados, 1627-60
In August 1645, George Downing, a twenty-two-year-old chaplain aboard an English vessel, wrote a letter to his cousin John Winthrop, Jr. about his five-month voyage to the West Indies. In early 1644, Pennoyer obtained a 60 acre plantation from Charles Stobart, along with the servants to work the fields. Beyond obtaining slaves both to sell in the lucrative Barbados labour market and to work his sugar fields, Pennoyer, an absentee planter, was a f…
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