Barbados 1661: From Sugar to Statute Behind Washington Black

Prior to the balloon increases in Washington Black, there is law. In 1661, Barbados codified effects slavery and ended up being Britain's very first slave society-- a model that took a trip through the Atlantic world. This post and 56-second trailer set the fiction against the facts: how the Barbados Slave Code normalised penalty, protected residential or commercial property, and exported a system beyond one island. We also trace links to Halifax and daily Caribbean lives that brought resilience through all of it.



See the history behind the fiction in under a minute.

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