BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS MAP - Late 18th Century
| The commercial activities of the British Empire created two major commercial centres in the North Atlantic, Bridgetown, Barbados, and Boston, both of them linked to London in the mother country. The prominent position of Barbados was due to her geographical location vis a vis the trade winds that carried ships to and from Europe, America and Africa, as well as the rapid growth of her sugar-based economy in the seventeenth century, which made her, a contemporary writer noted, “the richest spot of ground in the world”. |
