Betty´s Hope

 museum, plantation

The founder of Betty's Hope was Governor Keynell, whose widow inherited the estates upon is death in 1663, but had to flee Antigua during the French occupation in 1666. In 1674, Betty's Hope was granted to the Codrington family, then residing in Barbados.
Like other large plantations, Betty's Hope was an agricultural as well as an industrial enterprise, and home to a large number of people. Supervised by a handful of European managers, hundreds of Africans lived out their lives on this and similar plantations, first as slaves, then as laborers after emancipation in 1834. Today an active restoration of Betty's Hope is under way. A visitor center has been created by converting a former cotton house storeroom into a museum.