Qualla: Holetown https://qualla.com/holetown en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Holetown https://qualla.com/holetown Holetown: Introduction https://qualla.com/holetown/ The monument gets the date wrong. Erected in Holetown to commemorate the founding of English Barbados, it reads 1605 instead of 1627, a 22-year error carved in stone that nobody has bothered to correct. The mistake is oddly fitting for a place whose own history has been oversimplified and smoothed over, because what happened on this stretch of Barbados's west coast set in motion a colonial enterprise built on sugar, slavery, and transatlantic ambition that reshaped the entire Caribbean.

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/m/e/holetown-wp/ddme-holetown-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Holetown: The Accidental Colony https://qualla.com/holetown/ Holetown exists because of a wrong turn. In 1625, Captain John Powell was sailing from South America back to England when winds pushed his ship toward an island the English had not yet claimed. Powell went ashore, planted a flag for the Kingdom of England, left some personal poss...

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/m/e/holetown-wp/ddme-holetown-the-accidental-colony.mp3 0:06 2 full Holetown: Firsts on a Small Shore https://qualla.com/holetown/ For a brief window, Holetown was Barbados. Until 1629, it was the island's only town, and it accumulated firsts the way young settlements do: the first five plantations, the first major fortification, the first place of justice, the first Governor's House. St. James Parish Church...

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/m/e/holetown-wp/ddme-holetown-firsts-on-a-small-shore.mp3 0:06 3 full Holetown: Sugar and the Cost of Empire https://qualla.com/holetown/ What the English built at Holetown was the seed of Barbados's plantation economy. Those first five plantations would multiply across the island, and by the mid-1600s Barbados was producing more sugar than any other English colony. The wealth was enormous, the labor that produced ...

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/m/e/holetown-wp/ddme-holetown-sugar-and-the-cost-of-empire.mp3 0:06 4 full Holetown: A Town That Remembers Selectively https://qualla.com/holetown/ Today Holetown is a small city on Barbados's sheltered west coast, part of the parish of Saint James. Since 1977, the annual Holetown Festival has commemorated the 1627 landing, drawing visitors to a place that trades more on its beaches and restaurants than its historical weight...

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