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Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda

Comprised of the islands of Antigua and Barbuda and a number of smaller islands, with the vast majority of the population based in Antigua. Britain colonised Antigua in 1632 and Barbuda in 1678. The colonial economy was based on tobacco and sugar plantations with...
Barbados

Barbados

Barbados is an island nation situated in the Lesser Antilles. It was colonised by the Spanish and the Portuguese before being claimed for James I of England in 1625. There was a rapid influx of enslaved people from West Africa in the late seventeenth and early...
Belize

Belize

Belize is located to the South of the Yucatán Peninsula. From antiquity to the early modern period, it was part of the region in which the Maya civilisation developed. It was contested by Spain and Britain before being secured by the latter following the defeat of the...
Dominica

Dominica

Dominica is officially known as the Commonwealth of Dominica. It was colonised by the French in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who imported enslaved people from West Africa to work on the coffee plantations. It was ceded to Britain in 1763 under the Treaty...