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- 1 2 3 4 Otremba, Eric (2012). "Enlightened Institutions: Science, Plantations, and Slavery in the English Atlantic, 1626-1700". University Digital Conservancy. University of Minnesota.
- ↑ "Caribbeana - Archbould of Jamaica".
- ↑ Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander (1935). The Life of Sir Henry Morgan, by Brig.-General E. A. Cruikshank. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada.