It is, however, actually a sampler from Barbados – the earliest known Barbadian sampler in any collection. The RSN sampler is ...

This source of enforced labour underpinned the wealth generated by the Caribbean plantations. British slave traders started supplying enslaved African people to the British colonies to work on ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... Each year 3,500 black captives arrived from Africa or the Caribbean. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 ...