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Continue reading →: Barbados National Heroes: BussaSetting the Scene: Barbados Before 1816 By the early 1800s, Barbados had been a British sugar colony for nearly 200 years, and its economy ran almost entirely on the forced labor of enslaved Africans. Sugar plantations covered most of the usable land on the island — unlike Jamaica, which still…
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