#Barbados celebrates an entire annual “Season of Emancipation” running from April 14 to August 23:

• the anniversary of the Bussa’s rebellion, a major slave rebellion in 1816, April 14
• National Heroes Day, April 28;
• Crop Over festival, which includes May, June and the first week of August
• Africa Day, May 25
• Day of National Significance, which commemorates the Labour
• Rebellion of 1937, July 26
• Emancipation Day, August 1
• birthday of Marcus Garvey, August 17
• International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, August 23