Afro-Barbadian Erotic

Afro-Barbadians (Bajans, in the Barbadian English vernacular) comprise approximately 93% of the Barbados population per the 2010 Statistical Service census — among the most demographically homogeneous African-descended national populations in the Americas. The community descends primarily from approximately 387,000 enslaved Africans brought to British colonial Barbados between 1627 (the first British settlement) and 1807 (the British Atlantic slave-trade abolition), with source populations from West Africa (Yoruba, Akan/Coromantee, Igbo) and West-Central Africa (Bantu-Kongo). Barbados was the most demographically intensive of all British Caribbean sugar colonies — at peak in the late 17th c., approximately 70% of the island's land was in sugar production and the enslaved-African population substantially outnumbered the colonial European population. The post-emancipation Afro-Barbadian population has remained demographically dominant due to limited subsequent non-African immigration. Barbados is the cultural source of distinctive musical traditions (tuk band, spouge), of substantial Caribbean-Anglophone literary output (George Lamming, Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke), and of regional sports and cultural prominence disproportionate to the country's small size.