Decorative and detailed map of Antigua, published in London by Emanuel Bowen (c.1694–1767) for his A Complete System of Geography (1747). Bowen was a British engraver and print seller well-known for his atlases and county maps. Although he died in poverty, he was widely acknowledged for his expertise and was appointed as mapmaker to both George II of England and Louis XV of France.

The Nibbs and the Langfords were prominent families in eighteenth century Antigua, known primarily for their ownership of multiple plantations, as depicted in this map. James Langford Nibbs, esq. (1738–1795), owned two plantations: Haddon’s (also known as Weekes or Week’s) and Langford’s (also known as Pope’s Head). In 1760, Nibbs married his cousin, Barbara Langford, and appointed his former Oxford tutor, George Austen—the father of novelist Jane Austen—as one of the trustees in their marriage settlement to preserve contingent remainders. This settlement included Haddon's estate, although Austen's position was largely a formality. Nibbs maintained a relationship with George Austen beyond the settlement; he later sent his son, George (1765–1832), to be tutored by Austen at Steventon Rectory. Additionally, Nibbs was named as godparent to Austen’s son, James, in 1765.

Although Haddon’s has not yet been traced in the slave registers or compensation records, Langford’s is recorded as having between 258 and 295 enslaved people between 1817 and 1832, highlighting Nibbs’ role as a plantation owner and enslaver, albeit an absentee one, during that era. This connection to Nibbs represents Jane Austen’s only known connection to Antigua and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which may have inspired the character of Sir Thomas Bertram, a wealthy landowner with a plantation on the island, in her novel Mansfield Park (1814).