Barbadian Brazilians

{{Notability|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox ethnic group |group= Barbadian Brazilians |image = |caption = |pop= 5,000<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=local&NewsID=16100|title=The Barbados Advocate - Brazilian, Barbadian link uncovered|date=July 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707211816/http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=local&NewsID=16100 |archive-date=2011-07-07 }}</ref> |popplace=Porto Velho{{·}}Manaus{{·}}Belém{{cn|date=March 2025}} |langs=Portuguese{{·}}Bajan Creole{{cn|date=March 2025}} |rels= Major Roman Catholics<br/> Animists{{·}}Protestants{{cn|date=March 2025}} |related= Barbadian British{{·}}Barbadian Canadians }}

'''Barbadian Brazilians''' ({{langx|pt|Barbadiano-brasileiro}}) or '''Bajans''', refers to Brazilian people of full, partial or predominantly Barbadian ancestry, or Barbadian-born people residing in Brazil.

At the beginning of the 20th century, many Barbadians worked in the Amazonas region, Pará and Rondônia.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Greenfield|first=Sidney M.|year=1983|title=Modular elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem|journal=Luso-Brazilian Review|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|volume=20|issue=1|pages=44–64|jstor=3513217|issn=1548-9957}}</ref><ref name="BAdvocate"/> There had been a mass exodus from the Caribbean in order to take part in the rubber boom, and the poor socio-economic conditions in Barbados at the time made Brazil an enticing place to search for a better life. In 1911 Roger Casement who was a British consular official at the time undertook a special investigation of the condition of Barbadian workers in the Putomayo Valley then part of Peru traveling to that region by going up the Amazon. <ref name="goodman">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ixfR9QpXBEwC|title=The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South ...|author=Jordan Goodman|date=16 February 2010|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=9781429936392|accessdate=4 January 2016}}</ref> The Barbadian presence is still evidenced through some surnames of British origin found in Brazil, such as Alleyne, Mottley, Maloney, Depeiza, Blackman and Layne.<ref name="BAdvocate">{{cite news|url=http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=local&NewsID=16100|title=Brazilian, Barbadian link uncovered|publisher=The Barbados Advocate|date=1 March 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707211816/http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=local&NewsID=16100|archivedate=7 July 2011}}</ref>

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Category:Caribbean diaspora in Brazil Category:Brazilian people of Barbadian descent Category:Barbados–Brazil relations Category:Caribbean diaspora by country