“Two Plantations” on the Plantation
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Chapter 3 examines the issue of “simplicity,” how Quakerism everywhere involved a concern for economic well-being, and how the Lettsoms in particular may have benefited from their involvement with the Tortola meeting. Although one cannot suppose insincerity in the conversion of British Virgin Islands (BVI) Quakers, it is also true that economics and religion were intimately tied together, particularly for those in this rural, marginal part of the colonial world. This chapter discusses the economics of small-island plantations, and recounts archaeological and historical evidence of economic improvement on Little Jost van Dyke and for the Lettsoms.
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