Whence The Black Irish Of Jamaica. New York: Vail-Ballou Press, 1932. First Edition. Pp vi, 97. Publisher’s black cloth boards; ex library copy with stamps, otherwise a good copy.

Illustrated with a frontispiece & plate in the text. Extensive Bibliography & Index to rear.

John J. Williams, a Jesuit priest, describes the little known fact that black Irish and Scots were deported and enslaved in Jamaica. The book contains photographs of some of these black indigenous Europeans that have been forgotten by most historians.

The documentation of the enslavement of black West Africans is well known, however, little is known about these black Europeans that were deported and enslaved in Jamaica.