9, 10.] The Barbadian estates were generally much smaller than those of Jamaica came to be.

The planters nevertheless not only controlled their community wholly in their interest but long maintained a unique "planters' committee" at London to make representations to the English government on behalf of their class.

They pleaded for the colony's freedom of trade, for example, with no more vigor than they insisted that England should not interfere with the Barbadian law to prohibit Quakers from admitting negroes to their meetings.

An item significant of their attitude upon race relations is the following from the journal of the Crown's committee of trade and plantations, Oct.

8, 1680: "The gentlemen of Barbados attend, ...