How Ireland Was Forced Into Jamaica — The Hidden Labor Experiment That Built an Empire

Описание: Most people see Caribbean history as pirates, plantations, and postcards. But beneath the surface lies a hidden system — a colonial labor experiment that reshaped Jamaica and linked it forever to Ireland.

In this Crimes of a Nation investigation, we uncover what happened after Britain seized Jamaica in 1655 — when Irish prisoners, rebels, and displaced civilians were transported across the Atlantic as indentured labor, working alongside enslaved Africans in the earliest sugar plantations.

We examine how plantation economics evolved, how racial hierarchy was engineered into law, how labor shifted from contracts to hereditary slavery, and how cultural and genetic legacies still echo in Jamaica today.

This is not a travel story. This is a systems story.

What you’ll learn:
• Why Ireland became a labor source for Caribbean plantations
• The difference between indentured servitude and chattel slavery
• How colonial law reshaped human status into property
• The role of Maroon resistance communities
• Where Irish cultural traces remain in Jamaica
• Why “Out of Many, One People” is more than a motto

This episode is part of Crimes of a Nation — where we investigate the system, not just the story.

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