Jews from Brazil had introduced the sugarcane…

Jews from Brazil had introduced the sugarcane to Barbados in the mid 1600s, which has quickly replaced tobacco plantations, previously the main export of the Caribbean islands.

Planters begin imported enslaved West Africans to work the plantations in Barbados and other islands.

The Company of Royal Adventurers, of which the Duke of York is a principal, have a monopoly in the slave trade to the islands under their new name, the Royal African Company.

Beginning in 1661 with the implementation of black or slave codes, which create differential treatment between Africans and the white workers and planters, the island begins to become increasingly unattractive to poor whites.

The Second Anglo-Dutch War, fought primarily in the North Sea, also sees a naval engagement in the Caribbean.