Creating the Caribbean -- The Colonial West Indies, pt. 1, 1496-1697
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The History of Barbadoes
In some places, the irish more or less just took over. This became more difficult for people of african descent. There were more kind of restrictions in law and custom trying to discourage afro an people from obtaining wealth and status. In barbadoes, the company doled out land mainly in small plots so that various colonists could support themselves with tobacco and coffee. But between the 16 forties and the 16 nineties, as the colony grew, sugar really became the main crop. So barbados was the first site where the portuguese system of sugar production, what we now call the sugar complex, was really imported and multiplied on mass.
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