January 6, 2026 - In its aftermath, around 10,000 Irish and an unknown number of English, Welsh, and Scots were transported as convicts and prisoners of war to colonies in British North America, including Saint Kitts and Nevis. While Irish immigration continued, the rise of the Atlantic slave trade in Africans ...

Kitts was at the time the jewel of England's possessions in the New World as its shipping hub and largest sugar producer. Today several former sugar plantations have been renovated into exceptional resort properties such as Rawlins Plantation. Yet the 25,000 Irish men and women shipped in bondage ...

Condon states that the first ... white inhabitants were Irish.(5) Lenihan writes: in 1650 "25,000 Irishmen sold as slaves in Saint Kitt's and the adjoining islands, petitioned for a priest..."(6)...

September 18, 2024 - St. Kitts even played a role in the original white slavery—Irish nationals banished for political crimes and religious cleansing in the 17th century. Tens of thousands were sent here and to Barbados, Virginia, and New England following the ...

4 days ago - While Irish servants were a substantial portion of the population of Barbados, Jamaica, Montserrat, Antigua, Bermuda and Saint Kitts from the seventeenth until the middle of the eighteenth century, then, former indentured servants typically either returned to Europe or migrated to British North American colonies as slave labor increasingly replaced indentured servitude as the primary labor system in these colonies. Some, however, stayed...

April 29, 2026 - In 1625, a French captain, Pierre ... on St. Kitts aboard his 14-gun brigantine and a crew of 40. He had escaped a three-hour battle with a 35-gun Spanish warship near the Cayman Islands. In 1627, Warner and d'Esnambuc split the island in four quarters, with the English controlling the middle half and the French the end quarters. Cardinal Richelieu formed the Compagnie de Saint-Christophe in 1626, and 40 slaves were purchased ...

March 20, 2024 - Legacies of British Slave-ownership identifies the names of slaveowners in St Kitts at the time of emancipation in 1833.

to be sold into slavery. A few months later, in 1650, 25,000 Irish were sold to planters in St. Kitt.

March 26, 2019 - Montserrat was arguably the only truly ‘Irish’ island in the colonial Caribbean. Irishmen first arrived after being expelled by the British from St Kitts in the 1630s and they remained the major white population until at least the late ...

Information about slave houses in St Kitts and Nevis, from a feature about the archaeology of slavery on St Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean. From the International Slavery Museum's website, part of the National Museums Liverpool group.

July 21, 2023 - He sent his ships to the Windward, Ivory and Gold coasts, the Bight of Benin, and especially Angola and then sold the kidnapped people in Jamaica, Barbados, St. Kitts, Antigua, Dominica and Grenada. A diagram showing how slave ships were packed with their ‘cargo’ to ensure that no space was wasted · Tuohy though is just one example. While there are certainly many Irish people who were directly involved in the trade, it was far more common for them to have a secondary role, particularly in providing provisions.

constables on Barbados were being instructed to whip any Irish man or woman who was found · wandering the island and not working on a plantation.47 One Francis Sampson, writing a letter in June · 1666 to his brother John regarding an English attack upon the then-French colony of St. Kitts, lamented

May 7, 2013 - Since the seventeenth century the Irish had been settling in the Leewards, a string of physically varied and politically diverse islands. Their first choice was St Kitts, until 1713 divided into French and British sectors, and within easy reach of Dutch St Eustatius, a volcanic peak known as ...

December 1, 2017 - My great-great-great-grandfather, George Henry Burt, himself the great-great-grandson of one of the 17th-century settlers, owned 129 of the 19,780 slaves in St Kitts at the time of emancipation and took his share of the £329,393 compensation paid to the slave-owners in St Kitts.

June 11, 2026 - The initial arrival of Africans in St. Kitts and Nevis was in the late 17th century as a result of the slave trade. St Kitts, the largest of the two islands, has geography well suited for sugar plantations, but was plagued by colonial warfare in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Information about Slave villages in St Kitts. Part of a feature about the archaeology of slavery on St Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean, from the International Slavery Museum's website. Part of the National Museums Liverpool group.

April 27, 2026 - Montserrat was first settled on by Irish Catholics in 1632, who were sent there by Sir Thomas Warner, the first British governor of neighbouring St Kitts.

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April 16, 2016 - Originally known as Alliouagana, ... and Caribs from South America. Irish indentured servants became the first European settlers when they were shipped out from neighbouring St Kitt's in 1632....

November 25, 2020 - James Doan, a humanities professor at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, highlighted the challenges in a research paper for the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, stating, “Priests said Mass in secret, some being smuggled from nearby St. Kitts (60 miles away) disguised as sugar-cane workers.” Only in 1826, Doan pointed out, did a Catholic priest receive funds and permission from the authorities to build a church for his flock.