Hello, I'm Alan Cobley, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus. On this day, November the 4th, 1694, the slave ship Hannibal, owned by the Royal Africa Company, arrived in Barbados. The story of the voyage is preserved in a journal written by its captain, Thomas Phillips, and epitomises the horror of the transatlantic slave trade. The Hannibal had left London over a year earlier, on October 25th, 1693, with a crew of 70 and carrying 33 passengers.
Sir Everton de Courcy Weekes. Short, stocky but endearing, Everton Weekes, one of the three Ws, was quick-footed and possessed an admirable variety of...
Enslaved Barbadians celebrated their freedom from the bonds of Chattle slavery
A letter in the Barbados Agricultural Reporter shares concerns about the central Alm-shouse's overcrowding.