ANTH 1101 Barbados 13 November Early History of Barbados o Original inhabitants Arawak and then Carib Indians o Portuguese discover island early 1500s o Claimed for England 1625 settled over next few years English settlement of Barbados o Climate ideal for sugar o Sugar Revolution landscape transformed o Large amounts of poor white labor pours into Barbados Slavery and sugar o Sugar plantations demanded many workers o Shift to African slave labor during the late 1600s o Barbados and other islands shift to a majority black population though Barbados has more whites than many o Triangular trade enslaved Africans Africa to the Caribbean raw materials Caribbean to Europe manufactured goods Europe to Africa o Britain ended the slave trade in 1807 and banned slavery in 1834 o However freed slaves still had sharply limited economic and political Abolition opportunities Independence o Barbados became an independent country in 1961 o Its faming economy has given way to dependence on tourism o Post colonialism versus neocolonialism
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