First Barbadians, c.650-c.1540
English colonisation, 1625-1644
Sugar and slavery, 1644-1692
Slave society and economy, 1688-1807
Abolition, rebellion and emancipation, 1807-1838
Crisis of the free order, 1838-1897
Depression, reform and revolt, 1897-1937
From colony to state, 1937-1966
Some post-independence trends.
