Will the Irish government come to the assistance of the so-called “Red Legs”, the descendents of Irish (as well as English and Scottish) people transported 400 years ago to Barbados to act as slaves? As many as 50,000 Irish people were transported to Barbados as slaves and indentured servants during Cromwell’s time; the community that… Continue reading Government to help Irish in Barbados?
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A reminder of the Irish in Barbados
An Irish Independent article on property investment in Barbados also reminds us of the dark days of the sugar plantations of the seventeenth century. Many of the Irish arrived there after Oliver Cromwell took them off their land and sold them into slavery or indenture to British planters. Estimates of the numbers of Irish transported… Continue reading A reminder of the Irish in Barbados