Barbados: sugar, the slave code and Bussa's rising

From the 1640s English planters on Barbados turned from tobacco to sugar grown by enslaved Africans, making the island England's richest colony. Its 1661 slave code, which treated enslaved people as property, was copied in Jamaica and South Carolina, spreading the plantation model across the Caribbean and the American South. In 1816 the island's largest uprising, named after the African-born Bussa, was crushed.