England, Interrupted: The Interregnum and Restoration, 1650-1685
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Barbadoes and the Triangular Slave Trade
With the capture of jamaica, the government at home in england sends in massive supplies of ships and money. And they become massively involved in this triangular slave trade to west africa. Also a great deal of irish prisoners of war from those failed rebellions in ireland are deported to various caribbean islands. But even this wave of captive workers is not and the english more and more engage in direct slave trading.
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