1720s

Elizabeth [Eliza] Lucas Pinckney Rutledge (28 dec 1722 – 26 may 1793 | Antigua – Philadelphia PA) agriculturist, businesswoman, plantation owner / manager, introduced indigo as cash crop into South Carolina economy

1940s

Jamaica Kincaid (25 may 1949 – St. John’s, Antigua) novelist, memoirist, essayist, gardener, gardening writer, born Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, professor of African and American Studies at Harvard