In this presentation,we discover the forgotten story of Providence Island, England’s audacious 17th-century colony in the heart of the Spanish Empire. Founded by Puritan idealists and imperial adventurers, this Caribbean outpost combined religious utopianism, plantation economics, and privateering in a bold bid to challenge Spanish dominance. Click here for a 30-minute video by the Colonial Pride Review posted on April 26, 2025.

Leading Puritans, like John Pym and Robert Rich, the Earl of Warwick, founded the colony which engaged their early ambitions in trade, piracy, and plantation farming modeled after that which had been developed in the Bermuda Islands.

The Providence Island venture began in 1630 when a group of high ranking and historically significant English Puritans received a patent from England’s government for establishing a new colony in the Western Caribbean.

Providence Island’s ultimate fall and its legacy in British imperial history is a tale of radical politics, religious fervour, and Caribbean swashbuckling—a real “Pirates of the Caribbean” with a Puritan twist.