Jacob Pomerantz

For most of the 17th century, Barbados was England’s most productive colony in the Caribbean, a major site of sugar production, and an important market in the transatlantic slave trade. At the center of this emergent plantation complex was the port, Bridgetown, whose inhabitants were crucial in organizing the island’s trade and facilitating the transportation of commodities. My research intends to study these often-transient inhabitants, as they linked Barbados to regional and transatlantic systems of commerce both within and outside of imperial boundaries.