Barbados Becomes an Independent Nation

[ProfD]

https://www.reuters.com/world/prince-charles-travels-barbados-celebrate-creation-republic-2021-11-29/

 

The Barbados will shed its 400 year old shackles of colonialism in removing the Queen of Great Britain as head of state.

 

Great Britain says it will maintain close ties to the island nation. Hopefully, Barbados will be allowed to thrive and prosper and not become another Haiti.

 

The Barbadian President-Elect is Sandra Mason. There will be a huge party in the newly independent republic. 

[Chevdove]

Really!?

 

What news! 

Yes, I agree. I hope that they will not become another Haiti.

But I do wonder why now this has happened. Economically, I suppose they are capable of doing it. 

[Chevdove]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbados to build new slavery museum after severing ties with Britain

 

elebrated architect David Adjaye is to design a major new heritage site in Barbados, the country's prime minister has announced. The new site on the Caribbean island will lie next to a burial ground where the bodies of 570 West African victims of British transatlantic slavery were discovered.

 

Barbados to build new slavery museum after severing ties with Britain - CNN Style

david adjaye forms barbados heritage district+memorial to western slavery (designboom.com)

 

 

Barbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized

by Britain’s ruling elites. They made their fortunes from sugar produced by an enslaved,

“disposable” workforce, and this great wealth secured Britain’s place as an imperial

superpower and cause untold suffering. 

 

On Barbados, the First Black Slave Society | AAIHS

 

 

 

Barbados Museum and Historical Society

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I hope to learn more about Barbados. I only recently learned that my ancestor was brought to this island, initially after being stolen from Africa. 

She was about six years old when she was first stolen and then seven when she arrived in North America, along with a Barbados slave family. 

She gave birth to her first offspring at the age of eight years old and then her second was at the age of ten years old. 

[Pioneer1]

Congradulations to Barbados for this STEP TOWARDS independence.

However I'd have to check out their currency, their affilation with the IMF, who their trading with, and what type of products they're growing to see if their really independent or not.