![]() ![]() How Britain profited from the slave trade in BarbadosĮngland forcibly sent an estimated 3.1 million Africans to British-owned colonies in the Caribbean between 16 to work on plantations. Some Barbadian activists don’t believe the monarchy’s acknowledgment of this history goes far enough, and renewed calls this week for the royal family to pay reparations to those affected by the legacy of slavery. ![]() Britain exploited the labor of hundreds of thousands of African slaves in Barbados during the 17th and 18th centuries as it profited from the tobacco, cotton, and sugar trades.
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