The link brings up another important point which seems to be completely beyond the understanding of most of the most vehement "discussers" of slavery and plantations. Bermuda was a perfect example of a colonial economy that relied on indentured labour rather than on slves... it mentions the population of Indians (i.e. from India) that were shipped to the island and stayed on as settlers. Many of the Caribbean Islands , like the colonies in the East , such as Singapore, were populated en masse by people from the Indian subcontinent...and these people were never, ever, slaves. It's also an error to assume that these poeple were brought to the colonies by the British- as likely as not, they came with waves of Dutch, French or Spanish colonisation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.