Apocalypse 1692: Empire, Slavery, and the Great Port Royal Earthquake free ebook download.

Home : Book details

Apocalypse 1692: Empire, Slavery, and the Great Port Royal Earthquake free ebook download

Category:
History

Views: 708
Likes: 271

Catalogue

Author(s):	Ben Hughes

Date:	2017-11-20	Format:	EPUB	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1594162875
Pages:	277	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:	9781594162879
Uploader:	tarantoga	Upload Date:	1/4/2018 5:49:20 AM

To download click on link in the Links Table below

Description: Click to see full description

Built on sugar, slaves, and piracy, Jamaica’s Port Royal was the jewel in England’s quest for empire until a devastating earthquake sank the city beneath the sea

A haven for pirates and the center of the New World’s frenzied trade in slaves and sugar, Port Royal, Jamaica, was a notorious cutthroat settlement where enormous fortunes were gained for the fledgling English empire. But on June 7, 1692, it all came to a catastrophic end. Drawing on research carried out in Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States, Apocalypse 1692: Empire, Slavery, and the Great Port Royal Earthquake by Ben Hughes opens in a post–Glorious Revolution London where two Jamaica-bound voyages are due to depart. A seventy-strong fleet will escort the Earl of Inchiquin, the newly appointed governor, to his residence at Port Royal, while the Hannah, a slaver belonging to the Royal African Company, will sail south to pick up human cargo in West Africa before setting out across the Atlantic on the infamous Middle Passage. Utilizing little-known first-hand accounts and other primary sources, Apocalypse 1692 intertwines several related themes: the slave rebellion that led to the establishment of the first permanent free black communities in the New World  the raids launched between English Jamaica and Spanish Santo Domingo  and the bloody repulse of a full-blown French invasion of the island in an attempt to drive the English from the Caribbean. The book also features the most comprehensive account yet written of the massive earthquake and tsunami which struck Jamaica in 1692, resulting in the deaths of thousands, and sank a third of the city beneath the sea. From the misery of everyday life in the sugar plantations, to the ostentation and double-dealings of the plantocracy  from the adventures of former-pirates-turned-treasure-hunters to the debauchery of Port Royal, Apocalypse 1692 exposes the lives of the individuals who made late seventeenth-century Jamaica the most financially successful, brutal, and scandalously corrupt of all of England’s nascent American colonies.

Links Table

	Title	Link	Password	Size (MB)	Thank to	Inform Admin
2074225	Book	https://k2s.cc/file/fa98ebcc3e6e6/159416...		5.00	tarantoga

Tags: Apocalypse Earthquake Empire Port Royal Slavery

Title	Link	Password	Size	Reason

Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books:
Comments

New comment: