A Long History

The museum told the whole story of Barbados starting from its formation from coral, the time the indigenous peoples first arrived, though colonization and independence. Knowing what little he does about Caribbean history what Ken found most interesting was that by 1751 (when Washington arrived), Barbados had already been a British Colony for 124 years. And, unlike many of the other islands that changed between British, French, Spanish and Dutch control as many as 14 times, Barbados had not changed hands since the initial British colonization in 1627.