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Rather than dumping these all in a "Further reading" section that would further dwarf the article content, I figured I would list some sources here that could be helpful in expanding the article in the future.
Lioi, Anthony (2008). "Delight Is a Slave to Dominion: Awakening to Empire with Richard Ligon's History". In Hallock, Thomas; Kamps, Ivo & Raber, Karen L. (eds.). Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare. Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 (e-book ed.). New York, NY & Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 219–233.
Mitsein, Rebekah (Winter 2016). "Humanism and the Ingenious Machine: Richard Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados". Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. 16 (1): 95–122.
Nunn, Erich (Fall 2016). ""A Great Addition to Their Harmony": Plantation Slavery and Musical Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Barbados". The Global South. 10 (2): 27–47.
Oberholtzer Lee, Heidi (Fall 2005). "Turtle Tears and Captive Appetites: The Problem of White Desire in the Caribbean". Journal of Narrative Theory. 35 (3): 307–325.
Otjen, Nathaniel (Summer 2021). "Barbadian Biocontact Zones and Threatened English Colonialism: Reading the Unruly Species of Richard Ligon's History". ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 28 (2): 436–461.
Smith, David Chan (October 2017). "Useful Knowledge, Improvement, and the Logic of Capital in Richard Ligon's True and Exact History of Barbados". Journal of the History of Ideas. 78 (4): 549–570.