Some white people in the Caribbean in the seventeenth century were treated worse than black slaves

There is currently an obsession with the transatlantic slave trade and suffering of black people in the Americas and Caribbean. It is worth remembering that some white people in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were actually treated more harshly in places like Barbados and other Caribbean islands than were the black slaves at the time. Cutler, Cecilia (2017) Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Everett, Susanne (1996) Slavery, London: Grange Books