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Barbados

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  • An English ship, the Olive Blossom, arrived in Barbados on 14 May 1625; its men took possession of it in the name of King James I. In 1627, the first permanent settlers arrived from England, and it became an English and later British colony.[5]Colonies

After visits by Portuguese and Spanish explorers, Barbados was claimed on 14 May 1625 for James I (who had died six weeks earlier) by Captain John Powell.[6] Two years later, a party of 80 settlers and 10 slaves, led by his brother, Captain Henry Powell, occupied the island.[7] In 1639 the colonists established a local democratic assembly. Agriculture, reliant on indenture, was developed by the introduction of sugar cane, tobacco and cotton, beginning in the 1630s.[6]

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  4. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 248–253. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  5. ^ Secretariat. "Barbados – History". Commonwealth of Nations. Archived from the original on 20 August 2014.
  6. ^ a b "The Abbreviated History Of Barbados". barbados.org. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  7. ^ Beckles, Hilary McD. A history of Barbados : from Amerindian settlement to Caribbean single market (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0521678490.