Editing Redleg (section)

== History ==
Many of the Redlegs' ancestors were [[Penal transportation|transported]] by [[Oliver Cromwell]] after his [[Cromwellian conquest of Ireland|conquest of Ireland]].<ref>{{Cite book | last = Fraser | first = Henry | title = A-Z of Barbadian heritage | publisher = Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean) | date = 1990 | location = Kingston, Jamaica | pages = 90 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=e7HfAAAAMAAJ&q=the+orders+of+Oliver+Cromwell | isbn = 978-976-605-098-6}}</ref> Others had originally arrived on Barbados in the early to mid-17th century as [[indentured servants]], to work on the [[sugar plantation]]s.<ref name=" Price-1957"/><ref>{{cite book |isbn=1847175961 |title=To Hell or Barbados: The ethnic cleansing of Ireland |first=Sean |last=O'Callaghan |year=2000 |publisher=Brandon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iGyNAwAAQBAJ |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> Small groups of [[Holy Roman Empire|Germans]] and [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese]] prisoners of war were also imported as plantation labourers.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Beckles |first1=Hilary |title=Black men in white skins': The formation of a white proletariat in West Indian Slave society |journal=The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |date=1986 |volume=15 |issue=1|pages=5–21 |doi=10.1080/03086538608582726 }}</ref> After the [[Monmouth Rebellion|Monmouth rebellion]], one thousand two hundred rebels were sold as slaves for the Barbados plantations.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Churchill |first=Winston |title=Marlborough, His Life and Times Vol I |date=1967 |publisher=Sphere |pages=P192}}</ref>

By the 18th century, indentured servants became less common. [[Atlantic slave trade|African slaves]] were trained in all necessary trades, so there was no demand for paid white labour. The Redlegs, in turn, were unwilling to work alongside the [[Free person of color|freed black population]] on the [[plantation]]s.<ref name="Sheppard" /> 

Because of the deplorable conditions under which the Redlegs lived, a campaign was initiated in the mid-19th century to move portions of the population to other islands which would be more economically hospitable. The relocation process succeeded, and a distinct community of Redleg descendants live in the Dorsetshire Hill District on [[Saint Vincent (island)|St. Vincent]] as well as on the islands of [[Grenada]] around Mt. Moritz and [[Bequia]].<ref name=":0" />

The term "Redleg" is also used in [[South Carolina]], where Barbadians had settled.<ref name=" Price-1957"/>