The early slave trade in the 1600s is well documented with misery inflicted upon possibly up to 11 million people torn forcibly from West Africa to labour in appalling conditions in the the United States and the Caribbean.
History Journal has uncovered fascinating research into the role of Irish people exposed to the same suffering in the early
Following the Confederation wars and Irish Rebellion of 1641, Oliver Cromwell set sail for Ireland from Milford Haven in 1649. His mission was to revenge the massacres of 1641 and to bring Ireland firmly under English rule. His forces numbered about 20,000 troops and the slaughter and
The islands of the West Indies began to be colonised by English planters in the 1600s, growing sugar and tobacco for export to Europe. This trade required large quantities of manual labourers to toil in the fields, once the native Carrib peoples had been suppressed.
There began a policy of bringing Irish and English people to the
