Barbados Bussa Slave Rebellion

Here is an interpretation analysis concerning the Bussa Slave Rebellion in Barbados. It includes the side account of everyday people who were changed by the revolt: One such person is Danial, a hard-working African who had risen to the rank of Cobbler and was an admired worker.

Danial was an unfortunate consequence of the uprising. A slave who had actually done well, and also was a proficient worker. He got caught up in a competition among his fellow workers. He identified with the reason and also was enticed by the interest of the moment. They were numerous like him: Slaves with family members that loved life and also did not wish to die. He is included in this story to represent the lots of individuals that had implicit or secondary roles and also were not provocateurs.

Bussa's Slave Uprising made the colonial planters think twice about the dangers of shackling free people from Africa. The UN calls it a crime against humanity.

Although the Rebellion  did not overthrow the plantocracy it did assist the reason for the anti-slavery activists and made colonizers take note that slavery was not an option.

It was started prematurely. It seems by some of those who attended the dance, which was staged as a way to get together the participants and plan strategies of an attack against the entire planter population.

The revolt began on Easter Sunday at night on  April 14, 1816. At first, it was the burning of cane fields in St. Philip parish, signaling to other rebels that the rebellion had begun.

It spread from St. Philip to neighboring adjoining parishes, which also experienced cane field burnings.  Over 70 plantations were attacked, making the the owners to escape to Bridgetown, the colonial capital, in panic. Only two whites were reported killed.

The revolt was suppressed by local Militia and British imperial troops that included slave as soldiers. 144 people were executed. Seventy were sentenced to death and 170 were deported to neighboring British colonies in the Caribbean.

See the animated tale of Bussa on the blog.

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