that is the worsening life expectancy for enslaved people anywhere in the world at anytime in the world. barbados had multiple slave rebellion s, including several uprising in the early 18 hundreds, but slavery was not abolished under the british empire until 1834. so that is more than 200 years of brutal, brutal slavery in barbados. and it was not until more than 100 years after that, in the 1960s, that barbados stopped being a british colony. 1966, november 30th, 1966, is officially barbados independence day. it is the day they became a constitutional monarchy. with their own independent government, but still under the queen. under the british queen, as their head of state. well tonight, as the clock strikes midnight, and we go from november 29th, to november 30th, barbados independence day, tonight barbados will hit the 55th anniversary of the day the island gained its own