Mia Mottley

And they passed a law.

which really is something that we are not proud of at all.

And it became the structure for modern racism and institutional racism as we know.

And it was the bedrock for slavery.

It was the 1661 slave code passed by the Barbados parliament.

It was followed in Jamaica.

It was followed in South Carolina.

It was followed in Georgia.

It was followed in Antigua.

Almost all of the countries in the Americas used that 1661 slave code, which denied the humanity of black people as the basis for their thing.

The British treated Barbados as the jewel in the crown.

It was the producer of sugar.

It was, for them, the earner of great wealth.

Yeah, yeah.

And it was also the place by which they understood how to control and denigrate black people as slaves.

So that we feel, as modern independent Barbadians, that we have a duty to pay forward.

And that duty to pay forward is as a result of that history.

Now, there were other things that happened at the time because of how important the colony was to the British.

So after...

King Charles took back over from Cromwell, ironically King Charles.