c. 1627 AD–c. 1650 AD
Colonization of Barbados and the shift to slave-based sugar plantations
British Empire · Companies, trade & extraction · Slavery & coerced labor
English settlers occupied Barbados in 1627; over subsequent decades, sugar, consolidated estates, and the mass importation of enslaved Africans displaced much small production and European indentured labor. The “Barbados model” joined capital, monoculture, racial law, and social and environmental devastation
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- 2026-09-23
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