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White Caribbean orEuropean Caribbean is the term for people who are born in theCaribbean whose ancestors are fromEurope or people who emigrated to the Caribbean from Europe and had acquired citizenship in their respective Caribbean countries.
The first Europeans to arrive in the Caribbean wereSpaniards who discoveredHispaniola. Many white people in the Caribbean ownedAfro-Caribbean slaves. Many whites came to the Caribbean during the colonial era.[citation needed] Some white Caribbean people descend fromIndentured servants transported fromIreland and too 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.[1]
White Caribbean people include:
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