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One man whose crime was to harbour a priest was imprisoned, while his three daughters were sent to Jamaica. In order to prevent the new arrivals forming communities the three girls were sent to...
Inspired by the real story of 2,000 Irish children deported to Jamaica and the statistics that 25 percent of Jamaican citizens claim Irish ancestry. The Tide Between Us is a powerful novel documenting true historical events and the resilience of the human spirit.
“The first slaves shipped to the American colonies in 1619 were 100 white children from Ireland,” reads a May 21 graphic shared over 5,000 times on Facebook. “Truth matters,” the meme also says....
We were two hundred Irish boys and girls, taken from our country to cut sugar cane in the sweltering heat of Jamaica, this exotic little island. Highlighted by 223 Kindle readers “Apparently 25% of Jamaicans claim Irish descent,” one of her English friends told her.
Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British West Indies (particularly Barbados, Jamaica and the Leeward Islands), British North America and later Australia.
The Irish arrived in Jamaica shortly after the English won control of the island from the Spanish in 1655. By the end of the year, workers were needed in Jamaica to begin the process of building the new colony. Irish workers were sent from Barbados as well as from Ireland.
A 1969 Ebony magazine article, “White Servitude in America” by African American scholar Lerone Bennett, Jr., mentions various colonial undertakings involving white cargo, including a special 1655 project to bring “some 1,000 young Irish girls to Jamaica for breeding purposes.”.