Seeing the sights and taking in all the tourism offerings of a destination is fine for first-time visitors, but once you become more familiar with a place it’s natural to want to look beyond the brochure and discover more authentic experiences on your holidays. If you’re looking for a flavour of the ‘real’ Barbados when visiting the Caribbean island, consulting a little local knowledge can go a long way to helping you blend in and enriching your travels.
Today more than ever before, the ways of the Carib are to be laughed at and ridiculed; the dirty, heathen savages who are to be shunted away and have no rights but to die far away. The colonization of Barbados is one of the darkest events and evil stories of modern history. Four centuries ago Spanish and Portuguese slavers started to kidnap, kill and drive out the thousands of peaceful Indians found on the islands the Indians called Ichiroganaum. The exact location of the island was a carefully kept secret but Spanish and Portuguese sailors knew the island only as the barbarous island, “Los Barbados” where brutality and crime could be committed with immunity. The island lay just outside the Caribbean and far away from watchful eyes. Look out for this and other books by Gary and Angela Cole…
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