ECW 29: The Western Design
Rejects & Revolutionaries (American History Podcast)
English - November 25, 2021 03:00 - 43 minutes - 28.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsHistory Education americanhistory americanhistorypodcast colonialamericanhistory historypodcast unitedstateshistory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: ECW 28: Mary Dyer & the early Quakers
The Western Design was supposed to be England's plan to conquer Spanish America, starting with Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Cartagena (Colombia). Instead, after a disastrous expedition, England had ended up with Jamaica. For a while, owning Jamaica was disastrous in and of itself. Tens of thousands of people died, a huge percent of them Irish victims of transportation.