Fears of mass emigration gripped Barbados as thousands of working-class Barbadians sought better opportunities in British Guiana. With low wages, poverty, landlessness, and restrictive post-emancipation laws shaping daily life, many saw migration as a path toward economic freedom and land ownership. Meanwhile, Barbados’ plantocracy strongly opposed the movement, fearing the loss of the labour force that sustained the plantation economy.
St. Lucy Spring Garden Plantation is posted for sale in the Barbadian newspaper.
The Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette brought to their reader's attention a number of runaway enslaved persons
The Barbados Advocate reported on a special ceremony at The Lodge School where West Indies cricket captain John Goddard received a copy of the...