Behind Disney’s Wash — The 1661 Barbados Slave Code

 

 

Behind “Wash”: Barbados’s 1661 Slave Code and the Atlantic Blueprint Barbados became Britain’s first slave society in the 17th century. The 1661 Barbados Slave Code legalised chattel slavery and influenced laws across the English Caribbean—and beyond. 

This 56-second trailer pairs the fiction of Washington Black with the real historical backdrop. Read more + sources: 

https://roguesinparadise.com/washington-black-meets-the-real-barbados/