* 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 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.

The Barbados slave code also served as the basis for the slave codes adopted in several other British colonies, including Jamaica ( 1664 ), South Carolina ( 1696 ), and Antigua ( 1702 ).

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.

In 1996 the Government of Barbados sought the relegation of. bb to the incumbent local exchange carrier, Cable & Wireless ( BARTEL ) Ltd. A 2001 Memorandum of Understanding was then later signed between the Government of Barbados and both Cable & Wireless ( Bartel ) Ltd. and its sister company Cable & Wireless ( BET ) Ltd., to continue the administration of the ". bb " domains until the government selected alternate directives.

The following day, they sought to board Cubana de Aviación's Flight CU-455, which was scheduled to fly from Guyana to Havana, Cuba, via Trinidad, Barbados, and Kingston.

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.

The Barbados National Trust, founded in 1960, is an organisation which works to preserve and protect the natural and artistic heritage of Barbados and to increase public awareness of Barbados ' historic and architectural treasures.

" In a colourful aside, from 1655 runaway slaves, both Irish Redlegs and African Maroons began attacking local militia forces, killing plantation-owners and destroying crops in Barbados.

In 1670 English settlers from Barbados founded Charles Town, capital of the new Province of Carolina ; traders from Carolina exchanged flintlocks, gunpowder, axes, glass beads, cloth and West Indian rum for white-tailed deer pelts for the English leather industry and Indian slaves for Caribbean plantations.

During a visit to Barbados he witnessed the trial of four black slaves for murder.

The middle of the 18th century saw the decline of the tobacco industry and the rise of sugarcane, as well as the introduction of large numbers of African slaves. Brazilian exiles however, along with sugarcane introduced Samba to the island which featured a mixture of Latin music with African influences which soon developed into Soca-Samba which is indigenous to Barbados.

Many traditional songs concern events current at the time of their composition, such as the emancipation of the slaves of Barbados, and the coronations of Victoria, George V, and Elizabeth II ; this song tradition dates back to 1650.

This was a policy that had been going on for decades in Ireland, particularly at least since the time of Elizabeth I, and during the mid-17th century Cromwell wars in Britain and Ireland where large numbers of Irish, Welsh and Scots prisoners were sent as slaves to plantations in the West Indies, especially to Barbados and Jamaica.

Unlike Jamaica, Guyana or Trinidad, Barbados was the destination of few African-born slaves after 1800.

Others had originally arrived on Barbados in the early to mid 17th century as slaves or indentured servants.

When his father died in 1673, Samuel left Harvard to take up his inheritance in Barbados, where he maintained a sugar plantation and bought two Carib slaves to tend his household, one by the name of Tituba Indian and the other John Indian.

In 1680, the median size of a plantation in Barbados had increased to about 60 slaves.

A significant event in the campaign was the preaching by Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, of the 1783 Anniversary Sermon of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ( SPG ), an occasion which he used in order to criticise the Anglican Church ’ s role in ignoring the plight of the slaves on its Codrington Estates in Barbados, and to recommend means by which the lot of slaves there could be improved.

Many dispossessed indigo, tobacco and cotton planters departed from Speightstown along with their slaves and helped found Charleston after there was a wholesale move to adopt sugar cane cultivation in Barbados ; a land and labour intensive enterprise which helped usher in the era of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the British West Indies.

In the Lesser Antilles they managed to establish a foothold following the colonization of St Kitts in 1624 and Barbados in 1626, and when the Sugar Revolution took off in the mid-seventeenth century, they brought in thousands of African slaves to work the fields and mills.

For example, the Protestant Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts owned the Codrington Plantation, in Barbados, containing several hundred slaves ; all slaves in the plantation were branded on their chests, using the traditional red hot iron, with the word Society, to signify their ownership by the Christian organisation-the Church of England has since apologised for the " sinfulness of our predecessors " with this instance in mind.

Eighty-four Grants of Glenmoriston were captured at Culloden and were transported to Barbados, in violation of their terms of surrender, where they were sold as slaves.

This was a common way for women slaves to save money for freedom, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in countries such as Barbados.

The 18th century evangelical Protestant Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts owned the Codrington Plantation, in Barbados, containing several hundred slaves, branded on their chests with the word Society.