EVENT INFORMATION

30
November
1966

Barbados becomes independent while remaining in the Commonwealth

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📅 30 November 1966 📍 Barbados

Barbados became independent after more than three centuries of British rule. The change followed labor organizing, the growth of universal suffrage, and constitutional reform. Independence created a sovereign state, but plantation-era land concentration and the tourism economy continued to shape class relations and the island’s relationship with former imperial markets.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Errol Barrow

Barbadian workers and voters

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Barbados

Democratic Labour Party

United Kingdom