Sugar and Law: The Barbados Slave Code Explained

Long Before the fantasy of Washington Black, there is law. In 1661, Barbados codified effects slavery and ended up being Britain's first slave society-- a model that travelled through the Atlantic world. This post and 56-second trailer set the fiction versus the facts: how the Barbados Slave Code normalised punishment, protected residential or commercial property, and exported a system beyond one island. We also trace links to Halifax and everyday Caribbean lives that carried strength through everything.



Check out the code, the context, and the Atlantic connections.

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