Barbados is the most important comparator to Massachusetts Bay for understanding the relationship of these early English colonies to the London metropole because it was settled by a different demographic. The planters in Barbados were Royalists. They faced a different existential threat (the Spanish). After the war against the king, they resisted the Atlantic mercantile policies of the Cromwellian state, set in place by the John Fowke-Maurice Thompson clique, that invited the wars with the Dutch. We should talk about it in a podcast sometime!
We definitely should! Be a chance to use the stuff that got cut. An earlier draft had a somewhat wider lens, over the whole of British North America, so it could conclude with some contrasts on why 13 colonies rebelled and 13 didn't, but as the word count expanded the focus got tighter.
Barbados is the most important comparator to Massachusetts Bay for understanding the relationship of these early English colonies to the London metropole because it was settled by a different demographic. The planters in Barbados were Royalists. They faced a different existential threat (the Spanish). After the war against the king, they resisted the Atlantic mercantile policies of the Cromwellian state, set in place by the John Fowke-Maurice Thompson clique, that invited the wars with the Dutch. We should talk about it in a podcast sometime!
We definitely should! Be a chance to use the stuff that got cut. An earlier draft had a somewhat wider lens, over the whole of British North America, so it could conclude with some contrasts on why 13 colonies rebelled and 13 didn't, but as the word count expanded the focus got tighter.