Barbados 1661: From Sugar to Statute Behind Washington Black

Barbados didn't just grow sugar; it wrote the 1661 Slave Code-- a legal architecture that turned people into property and shaped slavery across the Atlantic. Our new feature pairs a 56-second trailer with clear context: sugar-financed empire, law-enforced the chains, and Barbados became Britain's first slave society. We bridge the world of Washington Black to the historic Barbados you can still stroll today-- windmills, boiling houses, and villages tracing old estate lines. We also note Halifax links and daily "rogues" whose humour and resourcefulness refused to disappear.



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