Talk:Saint Kitts

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Contents 1 Food 2 Sources 3 Importation of slaves: inconsistency 4 Who is "Saint Kitts"?

[edit] Food

the article needs info on kittitian food.

Gringo300 15:32, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

What is the source for the quote in the article? -Pgan002 07:54, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Importation of slaves: inconsistency

"The island originally produced tobacco, but changed to sugar cane in 1640 due to stiff competition from the colony of Virginia. The labour-intensive farming of sugar cane was the reason for the large-scale importation of African slaves. The importation began almost immediately upon the arrival of Europeans to the region."

If sugar cane farming was the reason for the importation, then there was no importation before there was sugar cane farming (or before there was expected to be any). So the third sentence above does not make sense, because the arrival of Europeans to the region was 1538 at the latest (the Jesuit settlement at Diepe). Maybe what is meant is rather "soon after colonization" in 1623, or 17 years before the switch to producing sugar cane. But this remark then does not add any information, and is only a distraction. So when did the importation begin? -Pgan002 08:15, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Who is "Saint Kitts"?

Hello,

who is the Saint Kitts after whom the island is named? -- 85.179.164.221 03:38, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

It was previously named "Saint Christopher" and then changed to Saint Kitts. One theory is..... (quote) Identification. Both islands were discovered by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1493. Originally, Columbus named the larger island for his patron saint, Saint Christopher, but in the early seventeenth century, British settlers shortened the name to Saint Kitts. Columbus named the smaller neighboring island Nuestra Señora de las Nieves ("Our Lady of the Clouds") because the volcanic mountain in its center usually was encircled by snowlike clouds. When the British arrived, they altered the spelling to Nevis. - Source CaribDigita 01:16, 12 February 2007 (UTC)