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It’s all in the flag: Bussa’s Rebellion and the 200-year fight to end British rule in Barbados

Originally published: The Conversation on December 6, 2021 by Lewis Eliot (more by The Conversation) | (Posted Dec 18, 2021)

Prince Charles, as a representative of Queen Elizabeth II, was in attendance, providing a royal seal of approval. Barbados gained its independence in 1966, though the new nation kept ties to its former overlords by keeping Elizabeth II as a symbolic head of state.