History of the United States I / Unit 2 USH1 0173 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Barbados and Sugar
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The idea
England took St Christopher, Barbados, Nevis, Montserrat and Antigua between sixteen twenty-four and sixteen thirty-two. These colonies grew tobacco first, then sugar.
In practice
Barbados becoming critically important for sugar by the mid-sixteen hundreds.
Where people slip
The anchor calls Barbados the first English colony dependent on enslaved people, and a model for those on the mainland.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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