Barbados

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• SOURCE: Age of Revolutions
  1/30/2023
  

  George Washington in Barbados?

  by Erica Johnson Edwards

  The local monuments to George Washington's 1751 visit to Barbados demonstrate the interconnectedness of American and Caribbean histories as well as the influence of Caribbean practices of enslavement on the institution in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/7/2023
  

  How Barbados's Reparations Movement Found the International Spotlight

  The availability of clear records tying British families – like that of actor Benedict Cumberbatch – to Caribbean slavery has made the movement for reparations in Barbados and other island nations very visible, if not yet successful. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/29/2021
  

  Barbados Declares Republic, Rejects Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State

  Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced last year that the nation of 300,000 would become a republic by Tuesday, the 55th anniversary of its independence.

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• The Caribbean Origins of American Slavery

  by Andrea Stuart

  The Barbadoes Mulatto Girl. Engraving published in London, 1779. Via Wiki Commons.