Plantations
The British West Indian sugar colonies were in the Caribbean and included Jamaica, British Windward Islands, British Leeward Islands, Honduras, Caicos Islands and Cayman Islands. The colonies had vast sugarcane plantations and slaves labored in these plantations.
Jamaica and Barbados
Jamaica and Barbados
Jamaica was a large sugar producer during the sugar trade, and there were thousands of African slaves there to work on the plantations.
On plantations in southern colonies.
On plantations in southern colonies.
On plantations in southern colonies
On plantations in southern colonies
On plantations in southern colonies.
They depended mostly on Slavery
The West Indians are decendants of slaves who either escaped or were released from slavery in the colonies of Britain in America and the Carribean. There was no slavery in Britain at that time, but the British did capture west Africans and supply them as slaves to the plantations of these Colonies.