Ida Altman | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World. By Alison Games. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xiv, 322 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-57381-1.)

Alison Games's approach to the study of early modern transatlantic migration is to analyze a particular group of travelers—the cohort that departed from London in 1635—in order to shed light on the diverse experiences that awaited emigrants who chose one of several possible destinations in what she calls the British Atlantic world. The Atlantic world that concerns her is British America, and she focuses in particular on four areas: Barbados and Providence Island in the Caribbean, Bermuda, the Chesapeake (mainly Virginia), and New England. In 1635 just over 7,500 men, women, and children departed London; nearly 5,000 of them headed for the American colonies. Another nearly 1,600 soldiers and more than 1,000 other individuals traveled to destinations in Europe. The largest number by far, 2,009, went to Virginia. New England received 1,169 and Barbados nearly 1,000, with St. Kitts, Bermuda, and Providence attracting considerably fewer people. . . .

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