Truth vs Fiction: Washington Black Meets RoguesCulture

The factsbehind the fantasy of Washington Black: By the middle of the 1600s, Barbados had developed an incredibly brutal efficiency, sugar production controlling the enslaved population. A horrifying system. Horrifying, yes. And efficient in the worst way. This system was then basically exported across the Caribbean. They even codified it, you know, with laws like the 1661 Slave Code. What did that do? It legally defined enslaved people as chattel. personal property, stripped them of absolutely all rights. This extreme system perfected, if you can use that word, in Barbados, it set the standard for generations of exploitation. Wow. So Barbados is building this machine of extraction and brutality. Where does Halifax fit in? It couldn't have been totally separate, right? No, not separate at all. Halifax, Nova Scotia played a really critical role and a complex one. Kind of contradictory, actually. How so? Well, initially it was absolutely part of that same system. Think about it. See the full podcast- https://roguesinparadise.com/washington-black-meets-the-real-barbados/