1627

Alonso de Sandoval, a Spanish-Peruvian Jesuit, publishes Naturaleza, Policia, … Costumbres i Ritos, Disciplina, i Catechismo Evangelico de todos Etíopes (The Nature, Policy, … Customs and Rituals, Disciplines, and Gospel Catechism of all Ethiopians), which argues that slavery combines all the world’s evils.

80 British settlers and 10 African slaves found a colony on Barbados at Jamestown (modern Holetown).