 Men are so intent upon planting sugar that they had rather buy foode at very deare rates than produce it by labour, so infinite is the profitt of sugar workes. . . ."20 By 1770, the West Indies were importing most of the continental colonies' exports...  Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783 - Page 15by Thomas M. Truxes - 1988 - 448 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Nicholas Darnell Davis - Barbados - 1887 - 286 pages
...which at present is very scarce, by reason of 5 or 6 months daythe, and not that only, but men are so intent upon planting sugar that they had rather buy foode at very deare rates than produce it by labour, soe infinite is the profitt of sugar workes after once accomplished.... | |
 | Stephen Innes - Business & Economics - 1995 - 432 pages
...prepared to pay high prices to get it. As Governor Winthrop was informed in 1647, the Barbadians were "so intent upon planting sugar that they had rather buy foode at very deare rates than produce it by labour, soe infinite is the profitt of sugar workes. ..." A severe drought... | |
 | Stanley L. Engerman, Robert E. Gallman - Business & Economics - 1996 - 508 pages
...164os. In 1647 a correspondent from the islands wrote to John Winthrop in Massachusetts that "Men are so intent upon planting sugar that they had rather buy foode at very deare rates than produce it by labour, so infinite is the profit of sugar workes after once accomplished."22... | |
 | Margaret Ellen Newell - Business & Economics - 1998 - 358 pages
...steadily after mid-century. As early as 1647, New England travelers noted that Barbadian settlers "are so intent upon planting sugar that they had rather buy foode at very deare rates than produce it by labour, soe infinite is the profitt of sugar workes after once accomplished."... | |
 | Richard B. Sheridan - Business & Economics - 1994 - 572 pages
...to your porte to trade for provisions for the belly, which at present is very scarce . . . men are so intent upon planting sugar that they had rather buy foode at very deare rates than produce it by labour, soe infinite is the profltt of sugar workes after once accomplished'.1... | |
 | Alan Taylor - History - 2002 - 548 pages
...with New England. In 1647, Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts explained that the Barbadians were "so intent upon planting sugar that they had rather buy foode at very deare rates than produce it by labour, soe infinite is the profitt of sugar workes after once accomplished."... | |
 | Robin Broad - Business & Economics - 2002 - 374 pages
...foodstuffs. In 1647 an observer in the West Indies wrote to Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts: "Men are so intent upon planting sugar that they had rather buy foode at very deare rates than produce it by labour, so infinite is the profitt of sugar workes. . . .":" By 1770,... | |
 | Larry Dale Gragg - History - 2003 - 254 pages
...sugar production, they devoted ever fewer acres to food production and, as Richard Vines explained, became 'so intent upon planting sugar that they had rather buy foode at very deare rates than produce it by labour'.98 Moreover, as the planters cleared the island of trees to... | |
 | Stuart B. Schwartz - History - 2004 - 368 pages
...striking testimony of Barbadian planter Richard Vines, in a i647 letter to Jobn Wintl:rop: "Men are so intent upon planting sugar that they had rather buy foode at very deare rates than produce it by labour, soe infinite is the profitt of sugar workes after once accomplished."'... | |
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