Editing Redleg (section)

{{Short description|Term for White Caribbeans}}
{{Other uses|Redlegs (disambiguation)}}
'''Redleg''' is a term used to refer to [[poor white]]s  that live or at one time lived on [[Barbados]], [[Saint Vincent (island)|St. Vincent]], [[Grenada]] and a few other [[Caribbean]] islands. Their forebears were sent from [[Kingdom of England|England]], [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]], [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]], and [[Continental Europe]] as [[indentured servant]]s, forced labourers, or [[Peon|peons]].<ref name="Sheppard">{{Cite book | last = Sheppard | first = Jill | title = The "Redlegs" of Barbados, their origins and history | publisher = KTO Press | date = 1977 | location = Millwood, N.Y. | page = 18 | isbn = 978-0-527-82230-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/25/archives/poor-backward-and-adamantly-white-in-a-black-world-culture-doomed.html|title=Poor, Backward and Adamantly White in a Black World|last=Haines|first=Lindsay|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 25, 1973|access-date=June 12, 2019}}</ref>