The Island That Codified Slavery: Barbados 1661


Prior to the balloon increases in Washington Black, there is law. In 1661, Barbados codified goods slavery and ended up being Britain's first slave society-- a design that travelled through the Atlantic world. This post and 56-second trailer set the fiction versus the truths: how the Barbados Slave Code normalised penalty, secured residential or commercial property, and exported a system beyond one island. We likewise trace links to Halifax and everyday Caribbean lives that brought strength through it all.



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