Info about Barbados
History of Barbados
Even tropical paradises have a history of man reach that is always based on the survival, latter on the need of richness and production, things that degenerate into bloody battles and into ethical matters.
This paradise is called Barbados Island and it stands east of the Carabians, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Unlike the rest of the islands coral stone is more frequent rather than volcanic rock, thus this island is flat. The land is fourteen miles wide and twenty-one miles long. Its name comes from the Portuguese and means "the bearded ones” as a reference to the shore’s threes. Humans arrived on this island in 400 BC when the Arawaks tribes decided to settle here after moving around islands. This was a peaceful tribe and had not much of a clue about fighting so they ware exterminated by other aggressive groups that arrived the island. This happened around 1200 AD and the reaming tribes took charge over the island.
A lot of the early settlers were the scum of England like gamblers, kidnappers, political refugees, and many others. Some wealthy people came to this island to claim land and other good things that ware here. The colonists used canes to make rum, and later on they began to refine the juice into crystallized sugar. This occurred in 1642. Because of the sugar’s large use, the island land became arable, and got a lot of profit. Because of this expanding industry the landlords had to import more slaves from Africa to coupe with the hard work. Thus, the larger plantations become more and more profitable and absorbed completely the smaller ones, due to the incapacity of small owners to compete with the bigger ones. This has brought the problem of emancipation, in which the slaves demanded their freedom, and even if their gain was peaceful there ware bloody particular attacks in case of fugitives. This was a transition period that lasted one hundred years and slaves ware eventually relished.
It was only in 1843 that the son of a black mother and a white father Samuel Jackson Prescod becomes a member of the Parliament. He fought for equal right and the cause of freedom for all slaves.
He also started the base of the Liberal Party that was basically formed from small landowners, mulatto and black people.
Faced with an alliance with the British Colonies, the island denied and invoked the reason of loosing the possibility of self-control, but the reason was far deeper. Landlords ware very afraid of the fact that they could loose their hard working slaves, that even though free, still worked for them to gain their daily life.
Even so, in 1850, the black population helped build the Panama Canal, living the Barbados Island to collapse in an economical disaster due to the high competition that other countries that made sugar represented to the small island.
Today, this small piece of land gets its money from truism which is a really profitable business, but like all the economic Earth, it also got a little bit shaken up by the economical crisis started in 2007.