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 ==Immigration into Antigua and Barbuda==
+*The '''Spanish''' did not colonize Antigua until after a combination of European and African diseases, malnutrition, and slavery eventually extirpated most of the native population; smallpox was probably the greatest killer.
+*The '''English''' settled on Antigua in 1632 and on Barbuda in 1685.
+*Tobacco and then sugar was grown, worked by a '''large population of slaves from West Africa''' who soon came to vastly outnumber the European settlers.
+*The English maintained control of the islands, repulsing an attempted French attack in 1666.
+*The brutal conditions endured by the slaves led to revolts in 1701 and 1729 and a planned revolt in 1736, discovered before it began. Slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1833, affecting the economy. This was exacerbated by natural disasters such as the 1843 earthquake and the 1847 hurricane.
 ==Emigration From Antigua and Barbuda==