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Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica in 1891. Photograph: Caribbean Photo Archive/Alamy Stock Photo
Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica in 1891. Photograph: Caribbean Photo Archive/Alamy Stock Photo
Sun 18 Jul 2021 04.30 EDT
Little is yet known of Bussa, the man behind the largest slave revolt on Barbados in 1816, but information about his life before this uprising could well lie in the columns of contemporary island newspapers. So too may further clues about what happened to Benebah, a pregnant black woman who stood up to a police officer on the island in 1834, after slavery had officially been abolished.
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