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"Cromwell’s Puritan Republican regime now had control of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. And for those who opposed the regime, transportation to the colonies became a very real prospect. Between 1652 and 1657, approximately 50,000 men and women were rounded up by soldiers, shipped to Bristol, and "sold" (ie: placed into indentured servitude, be they willing or otherwise). Some were Scottish, some were English, but between 8,000 and 12,000 men appear to have been Irish, arrested in the wake of the conquest of Ireland and initially imprisoned in a series of holding pens in ports along the south coast of Ireland, as well as Belfast. From Bristol, they were taken across the stormy Atlantic to work on the sugar cane plantations, with circa 8,000 arriving into Barbados and the rest bound for other British colonies like Montserrat."
"Cromwell’s Puritan Republican regime now had control of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. And for those who opposed the regime, transportation to the colonies became a very real prospect. Between 1652 and 1657, approximately 50,000 men and women were rounded up by soldiers, shipped to Bristol, and "sold" (ie: placed into indentured servitude, be they willing or otherwise). Some were Scottish, some were English, but between 8,000 and 12,000 men appear to have been Irish, arrested in the wake of the conquest of Ireland and initially imprisoned in a series of holding pens in ports along the south coast of Ireland, as well as Belfast. From Bristol, they were taken across the stormy Atlantic to work on the sugar cane plantations, with circa 8,000 arriving into Barbados and the rest bound for other British colonies like Montserrat."
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