* 1816 – Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed.

This was later termed " Bussa's Rebellion " after the slave ranger, Bussa, who with his assistants hated slavery, found the treatment of slaves on Barbados to be " intolerable ", and believed the political climate in the UK made the time ripe to peacefully negotiate with planters for freedom ( Davis, p. 211 ; Northrup, p. 191 ).

* Barbados, 1816 slave revolt, led by Bussa

Parris, his niece Abigail Williams and several other girls reveal that the girls, including Abigail and Betty, were engaged in heretical activities in a nearby forest, apparently led by Tituba, Parris's slave from Barbados.

Slavery was part of the early economy of Middletown ; African slaves were brought to the town in 1661 from Barbados ; by 1756 Middletown had the third largest African slave population in the state of Connecticut — 218 slaves to 5, 446 whites.

Strong was a young black slave from Barbados who had been so badly beaten by his master, David Lisle, a lawyer, that he had been cast out into the street as useless.

South Carolina established its slave code in 1712, based on the 1688 English slave code employed in Barbados.

His grandmother was a slave in Barbados Despite being of mixed heritage, he was referred to as ' black '.

The Barbados slave code ostensibly sought to protect slaves from cruel masters and masters from unruly slaves ; in practice, it provided far more extensive protections for masters than for slaves.

The Barbados slave code of 1661 marked the beginning of the legal codification of slavery.

The Barbados Assembly reenacted the slave code, with minor modifications, in 1676, 1682, and 1688.

It was founded by Christopher Codrington, who after his death in 1710 left portions of his ' estates ' - two slave plantations on Barbados and areas of Barbuda-to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts to establish a college in Barbados.

* Tituba-circa 1691 ; a slave from the West Indies ( Barbados ); enamored by Dracula and sent to take vengeance among the people of Salem Massachusetts for the death of Charity Brown

The Lesser Antilles islands of Barbados, St. Kitts, Antigua, Martinique and Guadeloupe, Saint Lucia were the first important slave societies of the Caribbean, switching to slavery by the end of the 17th century as their economies converted from tobacco to sugar production.

Bussa ( died 1816 ) was an African-born Barbadian slave who in 1816 led a slave uprising in Barbados popularly known as Bussa's Rebellion.

Bussa was born a free man in Africa, possibly Igbo, and was captured by African slave merchants, sold to the British, and brought to Barbados in the late 18th century as a slave.

The slave trade affected tribes throughout the Southeast, and historians estimate that Carolinians exported 24, 000-51, 000 Indian slaves from 1670 – 1717, sending them to markets ranging from Boston to the Barbados.

Codrington died on 7 April 1710, bequeathing his slave plantations to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for the foundation of a college in Barbados.

* Barbados ' ISO 3166-1 country code

* BRB, the ISO 3166-1 3-letter country code for Barbados

* Barbadian dollar, a currency used in Barbados ISO 4217 code " BBD ".

. bb is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD ) for Barbados.

The area code + 1 246 is a composite part of the telephone numbering plan for Barbados, also known as the National Numbering Plan.

Guyana are the current holders, after they beat Barbados in the final, and they are also the team to have won it most, with nine titles, although two of them have been shared.

1838 also saw the abolition of the " apprenticeship " system in Jamaica, Barbados, and the Leeward and Windward Islands.

The Dominican Republic, Antigua, Aruba, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Barbados, Dominica, Haiti, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Maarten, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts, Saint Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are also known for lengthy carnival seasons and large celebrations.

During the period of around 85 years the resident Governor of Barbados also served as the Colonial head of the Windward Islands.

He also received letters of patent for Barbados, St. Kitts and " all the Caribees " in 1628.

Despite a possible conflict of interests, Maskelyne being an advocate of the lunar distance method of determining longitude, the Board of Longitude sent him to Barbados in 1763 to calculate the longitude of the capital, Bridgetown by observation of Jupiter's satellites, and also to test his lunar distance method and compare its accuracy to John Harrison's chronometer, the No. 4 timekeeper.

The present Monarch also reigned over Barbados when it was a territory.

Oil production is also undertaken in Barbados, with much of the on-shore activity taking place in Woodbourne, Saint Philip.

Buses and minibuses also run services, and they are found frequently in many parts of Barbados.

The railway system of Barbados implemented by Britain in the 1800s, primarily for transporting sugar cane across the island to the seaport Bridgetown, has also long since been removed.

Laws also protect the coral reefs, and boaters should be careful not to drop anchor outside of areas approved by the government of Barbados in order to protect the corals and possibly other undersea infrastructure that might be present around the island.

Sugar plantations also arose in countries such as Barbados and Cuba because of the natural endowments that they had.

Anglo-Canadian also owned BCTel, and GTE ( later merged into Verizon ) also owned services in Barbados, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Red telephone boxes are also found across Malta, Gozo, parts of the Caribbean such as Antigua, Barbados, as well as in Cyprus, showing that the colonial influence is still present.

After several vain endeavours to clear his character he emigrated to Barbados, where he purchased a hotel and also taught in a school.

The Common Cuckoo has also occurred as a vagrant in countries including Barbados, the United States of America, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Indonesia, Palau, Seychelles, Taiwan and China.

There were also two sloops from Martinique out searching for the pirates, and Roberts swore vengeance against the inhabitants of Barbados and Martinique.

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The college also offers may undergraduate study abroad opportunities to places such as New Zealand, Mexico, Bonaire, Fiji, Barbados, Austria, and London.

During the 17th century, many Irish were also taken to Barbados.

The winds also destroyed every house on Barbados.

At the same time, American and other forms of imported music were brought to Barbados, while many important elements of modern Barbadian music, like tuk bands, also emerged.