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Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 21 miles (34 km) from northwest to southeast and about 14 miles (23 km) from east to west at its widest point.
The case is a formal end of Barbados' 170+ year long relationship with the London-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). 2007: 4 March: The Cricket World Cup is held in the West Indies region. Barbados hosts several of the Warm Up and Super 8 matches along with the Final. (to 28 April) 2008: 15 January
By the 1640 and 1660, large numbers of Irish arrived in the Caribbean as servants and penal labours to work in sugar plantations in the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Irish Confederate Wars. Prior to the 1661 Act, authorities in Barbados had governed servant and indeed slaves in a piecemeal fashion.
According to historian Russell Menard, "Since Barbados was the first English colony to write a comprehensive slave code, its code was especially influential." [13] The Barbados Slave Code served as the basis for the slave codes adopted in several other British American colonies, including Colony of Jamaica]], Carolina (1696), Georgia, and ...
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The two estates named Codrington's and Consett's were located in the parish of St. John on the eastern side of Barbados and covered 763 acres (309 ha) of sugarcane planting. Codrington's will, first drawn up in 1702, also notes three windmills with associated sugar manufacturing facilities on the land, 315 indentured slaves and 100 head of cattle.
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Born about 1640 on Barbados, Codrington was the son of another Christopher Codrington and probably the grandson of Robert Codrington, a landed gentleman with an estate at Dodington, Gloucestershire. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His father was a royalist who had arrived in Barbados around 1640, married a sister of James Drax , a leading plantation owner, and ...