Environmental Aspects of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Caribbean Plantations

• Main Authors: Beinart, William, Hughes, Lotte
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2007
• Subjects: Hudson; Hudson Bay; Lawrence River
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199260317.003.0007

The Atlantic world became Britain’s main early imperial arena in the seventeenth century. Subsequent to Ireland, North America and the Caribbean were the most important zones of British settler colonialism. At the northern limits of settlement, around the Atlantic coast, the St Lawrence River, the G...