Rich in history, Antigua and Barbuda
are fascinating places. Antigua was named after a Spanish church in
Seville, by Christopher Columbus in 1493. The island however was colonized
in the 1600's by English settlers, who decided to grow tobacco but some
years later they found that sugarcane was a more profitable crop, and
slaves (who by the way, were emancipated in 1834) were brought to the
islands to work on the sugarcane estates.
