Barbados

Barbados emerges as the grim endpoint for the Highlanders' journey, where Grey intends to sell them into slave labor on brutal plantations. Chains will bind them to sugarcane fields under relentless tropical sun, auction blocks ringing with bids from colonial buyers. The island's urgency drives Grey's restraint—he demands control until contracts seal their fate amid humid air thick with salt, sweat, and dread of permanent exile.