1816 CE
Bussa leads a rebellion against slavery
British Empire · Companies, trade & extraction · Slavery & coerced labor · War & conquest · Resistance & colonized agency
Thousands of enslaved people rose in Barbados under leaders including Bussa, challenging plantation rule and frustrated expectations of freedom after 1807. The militia suppressed the uprising; executions and deportations reveal the violence sustaining the sugar economy
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