Ichirouganaim

Ichirouganaim is the island of Barbados, the easternmost of the Lesser Antilles. Its coral limestone hills rise above a coast fringed by reefs. Indigenous peoples knew the island long before English settlers arrived; their Caribbean world was disrupted by European incursions and forced removals. By the seventeenth century Barbados had become a centre of English settlement and Atlantic plantation agriculture.

Sugar plantations depended on the labour of enslaved Africans, whose resistance challenged the authority of the planters. In April 1816 an uprising began at Bayleys plantation and spread through several parishes. Bussa, a ranger on the estate, was among its leaders and was killed in the fighting. The rebellion was suppressed, but news of it reached Britain amid a growing debate over slavery. Emancipation came under the legislation of 1833, followed by a period of compulsory apprenticeship.

The later city of Bridgetown lies here.