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Irish in American Plantations The transportation of Irish people to slavery in the Americas predates Oliver Cromwells reign with the first Irish political prisoners being sent to Virginia in 1620 under the reign of James I. |
Irish slaves in Jamaica In the 1650s, Oliver Cromwell succeeded in capturing the island of Jamaica from the Spanish and was keen to colonise it and put it to work for England. It was a much larger island than any other previously colonised in [ ... ] |
Book Reviews - Irish Slavery
White Cargo
White Cargo by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh - Mainstream Publishing Don Jordan and Michael Walsh have produced an excellent review of the trade in human cargo from Ireland and England in the 17th Century. Up to 300,000 people, mostly politicial prisoners, the poor, vagrants and street children across...
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To Hell or Barbados by Sean O'Callaghan - Brandon Press O'Callaghan has brought together some excellent research on the 1600s in Ireland, covering Cromwell's campaigns, the mass population movements to Connaught and the forced transportation of over 50,000 Irish people to the Caribbean in the 1650s....
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