St. Kitt’s is a state made up of two islands in the Caribbean and was discovered by Christopher Columbus during his second voyage in 1493. He renamed the island St. Christopher and later the name was shortened to St. Kitt’s by settlers of Sir Thomas Warner. When the British first began arriving it caused majority of the Carib and Arawak inhabitants to die from fighting, slavery, or disease. The island began to populate with people traveling from England in the 1600s and was established as the first English colony in the West Indies. The threat to their colony resided in the remaining Carib people and in 1626 British and French troops cornered and massacred 2,000 Carib people. Soon after the French also established a colony on the island, but was given to England in April 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht. The island was prominent for the Sugar Plantation, conducted through slavery.
“It was very common in several of the islands, particularly in St. Kitt's, for the slaves to be branded with the initial letters of their master's name; and a load of heavy iron hooks hung about their necks.”(Equiano)