We now think about how there were thirteen colonies, but really there were twenty-six, because there were the thirteen colonies in the Caribbean, which nobody really distinguished in any meaningful way. From the vantage of London, those are the colonies—all of them. The Caribbean colonies are the ones England really wanted to keep. Those colonies, which were just brutal death camps for Africans, were the sugar plantations. That was where England was making the most money off its colonies.
