The Island That Codified Slavery: Barbados 1661

Before Washington Black, there is law. In 1661, Barbados codified chattel slavery and ended up being Britain's very first slave society-- a model that travelled through the Atlantic world. This post and 56-second trailer set the fiction against the realities: how the Barbados Slave Code normalised penalty, protected property, and exported a system beyond one island. We likewise trace links to Halifax and daily Caribbean lives that brought strength through it all.



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