Maroons and the Marooned by Richard Bodek Joseph Kelly

Author:Richard Bodek, Joseph Kelly [Richard Bodek, Joseph Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations, History, Americas
ISBN: 9781496827210
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2020-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

6. Coral

Coral stopped the Sea-Venture’s transatlantic voyage. Coral reefs, now bleaching in the global ocean’s warming temperatures, thrive mainly in tropical waters. Bermuda’s reefs are northern outliers that grow in waters warmed by the Gulf Stream. Early modern European sailors would have encountered coral primarily in the Caribbean or in Southeast Asia, though reefs also exist in mid-Atlantic islands such as the Azores and the Canaries. Coral surrounds Bermuda like a hidden mouth, the teeth of which scraped the bottoms of dozens of European ships during the sixteenth century and against which the Sea-Venture came to rest. An imagined coral-free history of Bermuda would lack many of the features that shaped the colony’s history: no shipwrecks, no Spanish hogs, perhaps no castaways to prime the island for English settlement.

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