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Article: The Caribbean smorgasbord It's clean, kempt and bijou. It's all that you'd expect of a posh French island in the Caribbean. But then you start to realise that, underneath it all, St Barts is really Swedish...
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2000
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St Barts is an unusual island in two ways, both of which strike
the visitor at once - in the eye, the ear and the pocket. Firstly,
it's a white island - the only one in the West Indies. It never had
plantations (it was too small and hilly) so it never had black
slaves. Today, out of a population of 6,850 people, over 95 per cent
are white.
Secondly, St Barts is French, legally and politically. Columbus
named the island after his brother Bartolemeo, but the Spaniards
didn't bother with it. Instead, a boat load of 60 French Huguenots
from Brittany and Normandy first settled there in 1674. Today it's
part of the French department of Guadeloupe, though, unlike
Guadeloupe, St Barts' citizens ...
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