This source of enforced labour underpinned the wealth generated by the Caribbean plantations. British slave traders started supplying enslaved African people to the British colonies to work on ...

It was not until the need for extra manpower grew so great that King George himself called on the Caribbean colonies to help. In October 1915, the British West Indies Regiment (BWIR) was formed.

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... Each year 3,500 black captives arrived from Africa or the Caribbean. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 ...