JAMES BARBADOES

1796-1541

Name: James Barbadoes

Birthplace: Unknown

Residence: Boston, Jamaica (briefly)

Status: Free Person of Color

Occupation/Training: Barber

Abolitionist Involvement: Closely associated with William Lloyd Garrison, and frequently used Garrison's paper. He founded th Ameircan Anti-Slavery Society, and was active in People of Color Convention in Philadelphia. A strong voice in the New England Anti-Slavery Society. Organized a movement to free his brother who had been kidnapped in New Orleans and jailed as slave. When sentiments arose against the universal reform movement against Garrison, Barbadoes organized strong support in favor of Garrison and wrote one of the strongest pro-Garrrison statements of the period, and gathered other free blacks to sign the petition. Considered one of the strongest citizens among the free blacks of Boston, in the 19th century.

Family: One infant son named for William Lloyd Garrison, died in 1832. Other family names not known.

Place of Death: Boston

Publications/References: The Letters of Wiliam Lloyd Garrison Vols 1 and 2. (1971) Herbert Aptheker(ed) A New Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States (1965-66) and Charels H. Wesley Neglected History, Essays In Negro-American History (1965)

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