The narrative of Caribbean and American plantation labour focuses primarily on enslaved Africans — with good reason, given the scale and brutality of that system. But a less-discussed forced migration also shaped the culinary culture of the early American colonies and Caribbean: the transportation of Scottish and Irish indentured workers, political prisoners, and convicted felons to Barbados, Virginia, and other colonies in the 17th century. The specific term "Barbadosed" entered the English language as a verb meaning to be transported against one's will.
The Scottish/Irish forced migration to the Caribbean and its culinary consequences.
EAST AFRICAN SLAVE ROUTES + CONTEMPORARY BLACK CULINARY RECLAMATION + ITALIAN REGIONAL DEEP