The Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, with Bridgetown serving as its capital. In 1627, England colonized the Barbados, which had previously been claimed by Spain in 1511 and Portugal in 1536. The island was populated by English indentured servants and African slaves during the 1630s, and the island would become home to a lucrative sugar plantation industry. During the 1640s, Barbadian planters began to grow sugarcane, and it became England's most flourishing island colony as a result of its sugar exports. Its sugar grandees became incredibly wealthy, having an average of 115 slaves per grandee in 1680. During that time period, many white Barbadians migrated to the Province of Carolina with their slaves. The island was granted its independence on 30 November 1966, and it grew to have a population of 277,821 people in 2010, with 92.4% being black, 3.1% multiracial, 2.7% white, 1.3% Indian, and .4% unspecified.
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