[10] The adjacent Newton Slave Burial Ground became the final resting place of over 570 African, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Bajan persons enslaved there from c.
[2][10] Established by Derbyshire native Samuel Newton in the 1660s,[10][11] the plantation grew sugarcane and produced rum and molasses,[12][10] and its height of production coincided with Barbados' prominence in the British empirical economy during the seventeenth century.
[4] Increasingly draconian preventative tactics were implemented at the site to dissuade potential escapees, including slaves being branded with an "N" to indicate their status as property of the Newton Plantation.
[3] Despite the slightly longer lifespan, skeletal remains also yields evidence of periodic starvation among Newton's slave population.
[3] Tooth analysis indicates slaves regularly smoked tobacco and exhibited incisor mutilations,[3] the latter of which may have been a performative practice retained from the African continent or adopted by indigenous Caribbeans.
[8] Human remains at Newton were buried in a deliberate, non-arbitrary manner, possibly indicating the maintenance of systems of kinship among the site's slaves.