The Barbados Census of 1680
Profile of the Richest Colony in English America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3398353 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard S Dunn (0009-0006-2613-6477, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3 |
| Publication date | 1969-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1922291 |
| OpenAlex | W2325691668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
O z N April i, i68o, Sir Jonathan Atkins, governor of Barbados, sent a box full of statistical data about his island to the Plantation Office at Whitehall. This mass of data, filed away among the Colonial Office papers, constitutes the most comprehensive surviving census of any English colony in the seventeenth century.' Indeed, it is a richer store of information than any North American census before the I770's. The Barbados census of i68o was ignored at the time by the Lords of Trade, and it has been ignored ever since by historians of Barbados.2 Nearly a century ago, John Camden Hotten discovered Atkins's data in the Public Record Office and published large sections of it, though for some curious reason he omitted half the parish lists.8 Hotten's interest was genealogical, but the prime value of the Barbados census is economic and social. The detailed lists Governor Atkins sent home demonstrate that there was an elaborately developed social hier
Archaeology · Census · Colonialism · Economic history · Genealogy · Geography · Governor · Population · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Engineering · History
Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776
Inequality and Control in a Colonial Bureaucracy
Atlantic Landscapes
The Fishers of Men
The Total Product of Barbados, 1664–1701
A Sink of All Filthiness”
Tradition and Innovation in the American Sugar Industry, c. 1500–1800
Planting families
Sugar, Slavery, and Creative Destruction
A Community Divided
Spatial Analysis of Religious Community
The empire and provincial elites
Contesting "White Slavery" in the Caribbean
Urbanity, Sociability, and Commercial Exchange in the Barbados Sugar Trade
An African-Type Healer/Diviner and His Grave Goods
Measuring the Atlantic Slave Trade
This Islande is Inhabited with all Sortes’
The Ultimate Sin
Paying the levy
Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean
Family continuity and female independence in Jamaica, 1665–1734
Social protest and labour bargaining
New England's First Depression
Archaeologies of instability
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2021 (50) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |