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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Barbados
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Member of the *Commonwealth since independence in 1966. The most easterly island of the West Indies, it was settled in 1627 by a British group led by Henry Powell. The early prosperity of the island was based on the production of sugar cane by slave labour, until the abolition of *slavery in 1834. Barbados became a separate independent state four years after the break-up of the *West Indies Federation.
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