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Barbadian

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Bar·ba·dos  (bär-bds, -dz, -ds)
A country occupying the easternmost island of the West Indies. Probably first visited by the Portuguese, the island was settled by the British in the early 1600s, became a separate colony in 1885, and gained full independence in 1966. Bridgetown is the capital and the largest city. Population: 277,000.
Bar·badi·an adj. & n.
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Noun1.Barbadian - a native or inhabitant of Barbados
Barbados - easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela
West Indian - a native or inhabitant of the West Indies
Adj.1.Barbadian - of or relating to or characteristic of Barbados or its inhabitants; "a Barbadian vacation"
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There was also a lesser-known rebel named Nanny in Barbadian history: Nanny Grigg, an enslaved woman from Simmon's plantation, was literate, knowledgeable about the Haitian revolution, and has been identified by historian Hilary Beckles as "the revolutionary ideologue" of the slaves who were involved in an 1816 insurrection, the only physical war that enslaved people in Barbados initiated to gain their freedom (171).
Maternal discourses in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber by Anatol, Giselle Liza / African American Review
The Barbadian writer George Lamming publishes The Pleasures of Exile.
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Watson bases most of his discussion of slave law in the English colonies on South Carolina's slave codes, but recognizes their Barbadian background.
PUNISHMENT, CRIME, AND THE BODIES OF SLAVES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ... by Paton, Diana / Journal of Social History
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