Day 17: Barbados
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« on: September 16, 2015, 04:03:16 PM »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados



The original sugar island. Like most of them these days it is dependent on banking and tourism instead of planting cane. Like the rest of the islands 90% of the population is of African descent but there is a class of poor whites known as redlegs who are descended mostly from Irish captured and brought to the island as indentured servants in the 17th century by Cromwell's forces. Country has one of the highest rates of centenarians in the world. In the late 19th century it was once considered that the country join Canada.

Below is a map demonstrating the 17/18th century 'triangular trade' using one voyage as an example with Barbados being the node in the Caribbean

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