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The Barbados Slave Code served as the basis for the slave codes adopted in several other British American colonies, including Jamaica, Carolina (1696), Georgia, and Antigua. In other colonies where the codes are not an exact copy, such as Virginia and Maryland, the influence of the Barbados Slave Code can be traced throughout various provisions.
Records show a slave named "Bussa" was a ranger (a head officer among the slaves) on "Bayley's Plantation" in the parish of Saint Philip around the time of the rebellion. [1] This position would have given Bussa more freedom of movement than the average slave and would have made it easier for him to plan and coordinate the rebellion.
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His source was William Dickson, who lived in Barbados for about 13 years from 1772 and was secretary to the governor there. He heard the "African song" in the sugar cane fields of Barbados. Dickson was a critic of the slave trade and published a two-volume book in 1789 describing slave-owning society in the British West Indies. [1]
The code was initially developed in Barbados in 1661, then Jamaica in 1684, before being adopted in Carolina in 1695 as the Carolina slave codes. [9] The Carolina slave codes would subsequently be adopted in Georgia in 1770, and Florida would adopt the Georgia code soon after becoming a territory of the United States in 1821. [10]
Slaves continued to escape in spite of these measures, [6] settling in Barbados and acquiring fraudulent documents attesting to their freedom or escaping the island completely. [6] Barbados was subject to such an extreme influx of slaves, [ 7 ] though, that the plantation's authority did not always invest in pursuing escapees, and even ...
Benedict Cumberbatch's ancestors owned slaves in Barbados in the 1700s and 1800s. Reports alleged the actor was facing reparation-payment claims. ... Barbados became an independent state within ...
By 1821, Fraser was the owner of Goldstone Hall, a sugar plantation, which employed 330 slaves. [12] Bannister also frequently appeared in the slave registers, which showed that by 1817, she owned 30 slaves, [5] in 1822, she owned 66 slaves [13] and by 1825 owned 76 slaves. [1] The couple sent their children to be educated in Scotland in 1823.