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The Barbados Slave Code of 1661, officially titled as An Act for the better ordering and governing of Negroes, was a law passed by the Parliament of Barbados [1] to provide a legal basis for slavery in the English colony of Barbados.
The Consolidated Slave Law was passed following the largest slave rebellion in Barbadian history, this was then followed by the total abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834. Britain continued to rule the island until independence was granted in 1966 and the state became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations .
It was not until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that the institution was finally abolished, but on a gradual basis. [30] Since slave owners in the various colonies (not only the Caribbean) were losing their unpaid labourers, the government set aside £20 million for compensation but it did not offer the former slaves any reparations. [31] [32]
Slavery was abolished in 1834 and Barbados became fully independent in 1966 and then a republic in 2021, though it has remained part of the Commonwealth.
Barbados will halt the acquisition of a former slavery plantation belonging to a British Conservative MP after locals said he should transfer land ownership to the state as a "reparations gesture ...
Condemnation of slavery by Benjamin Lay, 1737. He first began advocating for the abolition of slavery when, in Barbados, he saw an enslaved man commit suicide rather than be hit again by his owner. His passionate enmity of slavery was partially fueled by his Quaker beliefs. Lay made several dramatic demonstrations against the practice.
It urged formulation of a policy to draw attention to and improve the conditions of the enslaved Africans in Barbados. At that time slaveholders also used Biblical justifications for slavery. [10] The Church of England relinquished its slaveholdings only after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.
The Consolidated Slave Law was a law which was enacted by the Barbados legislature in 1826. Following Bussa's Rebellion , London officials were concerned about further risk of revolts and instituted a policy of amelioration .