Barbados is an island in the south eastern corner of the chain of Carribean islands.
It is believed by historians that the first inhabitants were Amerinidian nomads. Wikipedia in June 2006 states, The first wave was of the Saladoid-Barrancoid group, who were farmers, fishermen, & ceramists that arrived by canoe from South America (Venezuela's Orinoco Valley) around 350 CE. The next were Arawak who came in 800AD, & called the isle Ichirouganaim. In the 13thC, Arawak, & possibly all the remianing other tribes arrived, replacing Caribs.
In 1536 Portuguese arrived by the isle, & seem to have called it Barbados, as there was a fig tree, with a eard, so they called it that. Spanish Royal forces seized Caribs, & used them, as slaves on other isles.
It is claimed that British ships who found the isle in the 1620s, saw no people there. They made their first colony at Holetown. In the 1620s, the first black slaves were brought to the island.
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The royalist planters increasingly imported slaves.
5000 locals died of fever in 1647, with 10s of slaves executed by Royalist planters in the 1640s, as they feared the principles, of the English Civil War's Levellers, would spread to the slave population, if the Parliament took the isle. But in the end, the comparitevly far left Levellers wishes for a democratic Republic, was overturned, by the centrist element of the Republic under Cromwell, who carried on being quite rightist, like the king of before.
1000s of Irish & Scots were taken in the 1650s to end of the 17thCentury by Cromwell, & the kings in revenmge for them rebelling, or fighting them. Cromwell, as the king's foolishly made Ireland try to invade England, so Irish prisonersm were sent over, & King James, as he caused the Monmouith Rebbellion by his dastradly opprersive rule, & killing of Scottish Puritans, & discrimination versus proto-Methodists.
The slave trade carried into 1804, under Royalist planters, & even boomed after 1660, under the evil king's forces. Large plantations replaced small holdings.
In 1816 there was a slave revolt led By Bussa, one thousand people died, 144 were executed by the royal army, with 123 deported.
Slavery ended from 1834.
But slaver merhcants dominated politics to the 1930s, with the colonial governors,
It was not till the Carribean riots of the 1930s, which were during the depression that the majority African heritage Barbadons, founded Parties. The Carribean riots were virtually the Carribean revolution, in that political parties founded across the Carribean in the 1930s, for demoacartic rule, & more welfare, & unions, & workers rights, 10s of people died in this troubled, event, That sort of thing would not be needed today, most people would say, but in those days there was such oppression it was needed.
Universal suffrage started in 1951. Barbados was in the WIF in 1958-62, till Jamaica ditched this, as of it's Labour Party opposing it on big isle grounds.
Barbados got autonomy in 1961, & independance in 1966, unable to form a union with the Leeward isles.
It has been ran since then, by political parties based in Barbados, & in the 2000s PM Owen Arthur proposed abolishing the monarchy, & becoming a republic. ,
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