Sandy Point Town
Raised by Enslaved Hands
Portrait
The first cannon went up on Brimstone Hill in 1690, and for more than a century British engineers went on designing while enslaved Africans cut, hauled and laid the stone that made the hill a fortress. A French siege took it in February 1782 and the garrison marched out with the honours of war; the treaty of 1783 gave it back, the army left in 1853, and UNESCO inscribed it in 1999.