Saint Kitts and Nevis Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

*The first '''English colony''' was established in 1623, followed by a '''French colony''' in 1625. The English and French partitioned the island, with the English colonists in the middle and the French on either end. In 1629, a '''Spanish''' force sent to clear the islands of foreign settlement seized St. Kitts. The English settlement was rebuilt following the 1630 peace between England and Spain. The island '''alternated repeatedly between English (then British) and French control''' during the 17th and 18th centuries, as one power took the whole island, only to have it switch hands due to treaties or military action. Since 1783, Saint Kitts has been affiliated with the UK.

*The island originally produced tobacco, but it changed to sugar cane in 1640 due to stiff competition from the colony of Virginia. The '''labour-intensive cultivation of sugar cane''' was the reason for the '''large-scale importation of African slaves'''. The importation began almost immediately upon the arrival of Europeans to the region.

==Contents: Slave Registers of former British Colonial Dependencies, 1813-1834<ref>"Memory of the World: Registry of Slave of the British Caribbean 1817-1834", at National Archives St. Kitts & Nevis, https://www.nationalarchives.gov.kn/memory-of-the-world, accessed 20 July 2021.</ref> ==

The Original Register of 1817 represented the first census, or perhaps inventory, of the enslaved populations of St. Kitts. Subsequent returns recorded new births, deaths, manumissions, transportation and marronage (the process of extricating oneself from slavery).