Irish in the Caribbean: Servants, Labourers, Landlords
The seventeenth century saw thousands of Irish men and women start new lives in the Caribbean. Many of them were driven across the Atlantic by the arrival of thousands of Protestant settlers in their homeland; others were deported for their role in the Irish uprising of 1641. Yet if these emigrants believed they were leaving religious intolerance behind them on the shores of western Europe, they were to be sorely disappointed. As Kristen Block and Jenny Shaw reveal in…
