Barbados

"Refitting, Mr. Beckett? I thought you said she was brand new." "She is. But her cargo area needs to be refitted to handle her projected cargo. The shipwrights tell me she'll be able to haul nearly 300. With a cargo that size, you're sure to have at least 200 arrive in Barbados alive and ready for sale."

- Jack Sparrow and Cutler Beckett talking about Sparrow's new ship

Barbados is an island in the Lesser Antilles, one of many British colonies in the Caribbean.

History
The first inhabitants of Barbados were the Arawak Indians. They were driven off the island in 1200 AD by the invading Carib Indians from Venezuela. The Caribs abandoned Barbados by the time the first European sailed in to the region.

In 1536 Portuguese explorer Pedro a Campos discovered the island en route to Brazil. He named the island Los Barbados, meaning the 'Bearded One' after the islands Fig Tree's whose long hanging aerial roots have a beard like resemblance.

In 1625 Captain John Powell landed and claimed the uninhabited island for England. Two years later his brother Captain Henry Powell landed with a party of 80 settlers and 10 slaves. More settlers followed in their wake and by the end of 1628 the population was around 2000.

The colonists originally planted the fields with tobacco and cotton, but by 1640 they had discovered the potential of Sugar Cane. To meet the labor demands of the new crop they began to import large amounts of African Slaves. The first large sugar cane plantations in the Caribbean became immensely profitable. In 1663 Barbados was made into a English Crown Possession, by the mid 17th century the planters and merchants were thriving. By the beginning of the eighteenth century, slaves were imported to Barbados by ships of the East India Trading Company.

Appearances
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom