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Advancing Empire: English Interests and Overseas Expansion, 1613-1688
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In Advancing Empire, L. H. Roper explores the origins and early development of English overseas expansion. Roper focuses on the networks of aristocrats, merchants, and colonial-imperialists who worked to control the transport and production of exotic commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, as well as the labor required to produce them. He is primarily interested in the relationship between the English state and the people it governed, the role of that state in imperial development, the socio-political character of English colonies and English relations with Asians, Africans, American Indians, and other Europeans overseas. The activities stimulated the expansion and integration of global territorial and commercial interests that became the British Empire in the eighteenth century. In exploring these activities from a wider perspective, Roper offers a novel conclusion that revises popular analyses of the English Empire and of Anglo-America.
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This chapter argues that Maurice Thompson and a Calvinist merchant network were central to seventeenth-century English overseas expansion, linking trade, colonization, and slave labor. It traces how their ventures, often failures, shaped Anglo-American plantation societies and the English Empire between 1613 and 1688.
Key findings
- Maurice Thompson and associates such as Thomas Andrews, Samuel Moyer, William Pennoyer, Rowland Wilson, and John Wood shared ardently Calvinist views, played central roles in the rebellion against Charles I, and became deeply involved in government between 1642 and 1660. Thompson shipped “about sixty slaves” to St. Christopher’s in 1626, described as the first recorded English slaving voyage to an English settlement.
- The Sandys-Ferrar directorate of the Virginia Company introduced headrights, a House of Burgesses, and indentured servitude in 1618; the “tobacco boom” of 1618–22 followed. The Powhatan attack on Easter 1622 killed over one-quarter of the settlers, and the Crown dissolved the Virginia Company in June 1624.
- African slavery preceded indentured servitude in Anglo-America: the first recorded mention of Africans at Virginia was in 1619/20, when a Dutch privateer brought “20.and odd Negroes,” but enslaved Africans were cultivating tobacco in Bermuda by 1616 and constituted 5 to 10 percent of that colony’s population by 1619. Henry Winthrop reported that 40 of Barbados’s 100 inhabitants were enslaved directly after the colony’s founding.
- Sir William Courteen’s global vision included Essequibo settlements producing a reported 800,000 pounds of tobacco per annum by 1623 and upward of £10,000 invested in Barbados; the Crown reportedly owed him £200,000 by the 1630s. Maurice Thompson and partners inherited and revamped Courteen’s plan, but their Assada Adventure failed amid indigenous resistance and restored monarchy interests in the Guinea trade in the early 1660s.
Methods
- Historical monograph chapter analyzing English overseas expansion from 1613 to 1688 through the careers, networks, and patronage ties of Maurice Thompson and his associates.
- Draws on archival and printed sources including court cases, depositions, wills, company records, state papers, correspondence, and promotional pamphlets.
- Main analysis is narrative and network-based, connecting religion, politics, trade, colonization, and labor while emphasizing failure as a primary result of English imperial activity.
Limitations
- Stated: the “sketchy historical record” limits understanding; ledgers and business records do not survive in significant numbers; precise population figures are impossible to recover with precision and methodology has drawn serious concerns; political heat around the tobacco boom requires wariness about claims; the author notes “we lack direct evidence” about colonizers’ thinking on indenture and “we do not know whose idea it was” to bring Venezuelan tobacco to Jamestown.
- Evident: the chapter centers elite male merchants, patrons, and officials; servants, enslaved Africans, and Indigenous peoples appear mainly through English records, so their perspectives and agency are not fully recoverable from this text.
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“This London merchant rose to preeminence among the figures who drove seventeenth-century English overseas trade and colonization”
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“Within three decades, however, sugar, in accordance with Harcourt's analysis, began to replace it in Barbados.”
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“Although in that same year the Spanish sacked the colony”
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“From there, Sir William's group began shipping English, Irish, and Dutch settlers to the Essequibo River on the Wild Coast of Guiana after James I returned the town to Zeeland's control.”
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“the need to pay for imports addicted the planters to cultivation of the weed to an extent that inevitably caused its price to plunge in the 1630s.”
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“Sir William sponsored plantations in the West Indies as well as Asian and African trading ventures that he sought to link via West Africa before his death in 1636.”
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“played central roles in the rebellion against Charles I and became deeply involved in government between 1642 and 1660”
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“Maurice Thompson and his partners inherited and revamped the Courteen plan over the next two decades.”
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“John Rolfe played an integral role in extending cultivation of the weed to Virginia by conducting the first trial of Venezuelan tobacco there.”
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“Their Assada Adventure, however, ran afoul of indigenous resistance to the settlement of this island in the Indian Ocean and then of the interests of the restored monarchy in the Guinea trade in the early 1660s.”
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“he and his associates, such as Thomas Andrews, Samuel Moyer, William Pennoyer, Rowland Wilson, and John Wood, who shared his ardently Calvinist religious views”
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“Harcourt's venture followed a series of English failures on the South American mainland including one of his own four years previously.”
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“he and his new wife then ventured to England where they served as the faces of a promotional campaign that yielded both successful recapitalization of and new management for the Virginia Company and the”
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“His favorable report convinced Sir William to secure a patent to the island through the offices of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; he then invested upward of £10,000 in establishing a colony there.”
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“The resulting campaign of denunciation and counterdenunciation created such distractions that the Crown had to step in reluctantly, dissolve the Virginia Company in June 1624, and place the colony under royal administration.”
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“Carlisle granted a syndicate of London merchants headed by Marmaduke Rawdon 10,000 acres of Barbados land; their own agent, Charles Wolverston, used that authority to assume the government over the entire island.”
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“enslaved Africans were cultivating tobacco, as well as scouring shipwrecks for salvage on Bermuda (founded in 1612) by 1616, and they constituted 5 to 10 percent of that colony's population by 1619.”
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“By 1623, these settlements were producing a reported 800,000 pounds of tobacco per annum.”
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“having survived the Powhatan attack of 1622, Thompson returned to England, never to cross the Atlantic again”
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“after her kidnaping, he famously married Pocahontas, daughter of the Powhatan sachem Wahunsonacock, thereby ending the First Anglo-Powhatan War that had beset Virginia since its founding.”
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“He also knew, probably not coincidentally, both that slavery existed as a labor option for Anglo-American planters and how the American trade in indentured labor functioned.”
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“Thompson received a relatively middling 150 acres.”
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“While the Earl continued his private war against the Spanish, however, this particular idea of a company never came off due to the disputes over the mismanagement of the larger conflict”
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“Prior to 1623, however, this sort of activity ran afoul of the peace policy of James I (reigned 1603-25).It therefore exposed the charters of colonies that harbored pirates to the threat of annulment for violating their corporate privileges.”
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“The English settlement of St. Christopher's began, according to Captain John Smith's account, as an offshoot of Roger North's Amazon forays, with the first colonists arriving in January 1624 led by Captain Thomas Warner.”
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“After he assumed his earldom in 1619, Warwick assembled an extensive web of mercantile, clerical, and political clients that he used, in conjunction with like-minded aristocrats, such as his brother, Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, and William Fiennes, Viscount Saye and Sele, to promote his fiercely anti-Spanish views”
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“Southampton's clients, Sir Edwin Sandys and the merchant Ferrar brothers, John and Nicholas, put into effect several plans, all of which were employed in Anglo-America as it expanded”
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“Thompson actually lived in Virginia for four or five years when he was a young man, conceivably as a servant, although we have no evidence on this point.”
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“its spirit remained alive in the form of the Providence Island Company, which Warwick, Holland, Saye, and a remarkably large and important group of partners founded in order to continue harassment of the Spanish as well as pursue other Caribbean prospects.”
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“This venture lasted from 1625 to 1629 while England and Spain were at war after which it became bankrupt and Harcourt was killed by Indians in 1631.”
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“This undertaking, however, ran afoul of the unfortunate practice, whether due to oversight, ministerial inefficiency, disinterest, dissimulation, or confusion, of Charles I of granting multiple patents to similar rights to conduct overseas trade and colonization.”
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“The overhaul of the administration of the Virginia Company that accompanied the introduction of tobacco cultivation involved the removal of Sir Thomas Smythe”
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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It may state two separate claims as one. The quote only partly states this claim.
The paper states this without a source or data behind it here, so there is nothing to check it against. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“problems arose with Warwick's enthusiasm for piracy, which extended to the Indian Ocean where to the deep irritation of the East India Company one of his crews seized a vessel carrying the mother of the Mughal Emperor and £100,000 worth of cargo.”
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“For instance, the Powells knew both Henry Winthrop and Henry's father, John Winthrop, the Governor of Massachusetts Bay.”
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [33]
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In the paper
“Another of the Carlisle's clients, Henry Hawley, then arrived in Barbados and arrested Powell.”
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In the paper
“Yet their careers have rarely received the attention they warrant outside of Robert Brenner's mammoth study, now over twenty years old.”
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In the paper
“Prior to 1613, the goals of those English people interested in the Western Hemisphere had focused on trade, primarily for animal pelts, with American Indians; the search for mines containing seams of ores that could be processed into precious metals; bases for conducting piracy; the search for a passage around or through America to Asia; and fishing.”
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In the paper
“Yet unlike the epiphenomenal efforts of Sir Walter Ralegh and other gold-blinded explorers, it ignited English interest in colonization in the West Indies.”
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In the paper
“Yet notwithstanding the ultimately extensive global influence of the English, failure constitutes the primary result of their activities”
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“it is only through the study of the many failures they incurred that we can obtain a comprehensive sense of the history of the English Empire.”
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Reciprocity between the social orders constituted the ligaments of the body politic that served as the sociopolitical ideal throughout Western Europe and beyond.”
plainstates an association- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“By the 1610s, certain figures had worked out that overseas trade and colonization could boost both their incomes and their political prominence.”
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In the paper
“The cases of Thompson and his counterparts also provide clear illustrations of how their pursuit of overseas trade and colonization fit into the changing circumstances in which these activities took place as well as how those changes affected the conduct of those ventures.”
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“Carrying out such long-range agendas, however, not only required substantial capital, in both fiscal and mental terms, to absorb the myriad risks and extensive costs.”
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In the paper
“Even so, the scheme provided the basis for extending the English presence in the Eastern Hemisphere and for establishing the connection between Africa and Anglo-America.”
plainstates a causeSingle case- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“although crucial differences existed between the metropolitan theme and its colonial variations, especially the absence of a hereditary aristocracy since people with titles tended not to migrate certainly on a permanent basis.”
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Thompson did not report on the origins of that voyage, but its occurrence indicates that he (and probably other English people) had an awareness of how the trans-Atlantic slave trade worked.”
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In the paper
“A clamor for renewed hostilities with the old enemy meant that traders and colonizers could now frequent the Caribbean without risking incarceration in the Tower.”
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plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Servitude remained a familiar mechanism of ensuring that an agricultural labor force was in place throughout the year as well as, by dint of the customary practice of providing servants with room and board over the course of their term (customarily one year in England), an avenue for conducting reciprocity between servants and masters.”
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In the paper
“The demands of colonizers necessitated the development of colonies that produced and consumed commodities that benefited those backers.”
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“The region had been officially off limits to English overseas operators after the Anglo-Spanish Treaty of London of 1604.”
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In the paper
“Nevertheless, the establishment of a tobacco colony there, in conjunction with the slow recovery of Virginia after the tumults it had endured, provided both the platform for the further expansion of English overseas interests and a sense that these interests required better oversight.”
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“the new officers of the company devised a plan for governing it and for providing access to labor to planters, which provided the model for the subsequent sociopolitical nature of English overseas colonization.”
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“The running of the plantation trade required agents on the ground; colonizers recruited them with offers including land and the means to transform it into an estate.”
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“Political culture played a controlling role in these developments: Warwick and other patrons would not have been cognizant of what was going on in America without the efforts of their clients on the ground.”
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“This institution provided the main point of contact between metropolis and colony, ensured local oversight over local affairs, and thus provided protection for the estates of planters in conformity with the seventeenth-century English comprehension of social structure.”
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“The collective goal for the Warwick networkin addition to profitseems to have been to carry the fight against the Catholic foe via privateering and colonization, which would also increase English territorial claims and the flow of revenue to both the Crown's coffers and the estates of the colonizers.”
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [34]
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hedgedstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Not matched
The paper relies on this without support.
Plantations required bound labor to succeed.
“As these colonizers knew well, plantations required bound labor to succeed.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Indentured servitude never brought migrants in sufficient numbers to meet colonial labor requirements.
“Indentured servitude certainly offered one feasible means of addressing this issue, yet it never brought migrants in sufficient numbers.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Roper, L. H.
- Affiliations
- SUNY New Paltz (US)
- Corresponding author
- Roper, L. H.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2017-07-03
- OpenAlex
- W4240254012
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 20 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 12.09
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Legal and cultural studies analysis
- Keywords
- British Empire, English overseas expansion, colonialism, tobacco, sugar, colonial labor, English colonies, Anglo-American relations, 18th century, international trade, imperial networks
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