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The Barbados Cricket Buckle is a repoussé engraving on a belt buckle of a slave playing cricket in Barbados circa 1780–1810.[1][2][3][4][5][6] It is believed to be the only known image of a slave playing cricket and is thought to be the oldest surviving artifact depicting cricket outside the British Isles.[7][8]
"That the belt buckle depicts the slave, unmistakably in bondage, with bat in hand, suggests that the creator must have detected in their cricketing endeavours the germ of the quest for self-expression, if not liberation." Professor Clem Seecharan, Muscular Education.[9]
- ^ Burton, Professor Richard D E (1997). AfroCreole; Power Opposition and Play in the Caribbean. New York: Cornell University Press.
- ^ Seecharan, Professor Clem (2006). Muscular Learning; Cricket and Education in the Making of the British West Indies at the end of the 19th Century. Jamaica: Ian Randle.
- ^ Williams, Marcus (5 November 1986). "Mystery of A Mud Covered Buckle". The Times (London).
- ^ Swanton, E.W. (19 December 1991). "Long-lost Buckle Reveals Rich Barbadian Heritage". The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ^ Williams, Clive (February 1986). "Tale of a Belt Buckle". Wisden Cricket Monthly. 7 (9).
- ^ Williams, Clive (February 1986). The Cricketer.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ The Times (London). 5 November 1986.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ The Daily Telegraph. London. 19 December 1991.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Seecharan (2006). Muscular Learning.