This literature claims the existence of “white slavery” in Barbados and, essentially, argues that the harsh labor conditions and sufferings of indentured servants were as bad as or even worse than ...

This initiative reportedly offers not only economic opportunities but a chance to engage with a crop deeply interwoven with ...

DAVID OLUSOGA:'These are Britain's forgotten slave owners.' DAVID OLUSOGA:'This is the Atlantic coast of Barbados. In 1627, a group of 50 or so British settlers arrived on the island. Within a few ...

Cumberbatch's seventh great-grandfather bought the Cleland plantation in northern Barbados in 1728, which held up to 250 slaves. When slavery was abolished in 1833, the UK government borrowed ...

3. -- The controversy over the question whether Cotton Mather of Boston entered into a plot to capture William Penn and the first colony of Quakers and sell them as slaves in the Barbados has been ...

In South Carolina, successful slave owners, such as the Middleton family from Barbados, established a system of full-blown, Caribbean-style slavery. The Middletons settled on land near Charleston ...

Why slave owners opposed abolition How British slavery owners fought for compensation The Barbados Slave Code Evidence of British slave ownership in the 1830`s The social and economic impact of ...

It comes after the the Prime Minister of Barbados told United Nations that reparations for slavery and colonialism should be part of a new 'global reset'. Mia Mottley, who is leading the demands ...