White Caribbean people

The first Europeans to arrive in the Caribbean were Spaniards who discovered Hispaniola. Many whites came to the Caribbean during the colonial era. Some white Caribbean people descend from Indentured servants transported from Ireland and to a lesser extent other European countries, where they worked on tobacco and cotton plantations. Some of them were political prisoners and criminals, especially in Barbados.

History

The Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean were exterminated by white colonists. The initial tribe that the Spanish colonizers and Christopher Columbus came across in the Caribbean was the Taíno tribe. European colonizers transported Africans to the Caribbean following the genocide of the Indigenous population. In the Caribbean, black slaves were owned by white individuals. The European powers that colonized the Caribbean included Spain, England, the Netherlands, and France.