European diaspora in the Caribbean

Redleg is a term used to refer to poor whites who live or at one time lived on Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and a few other Caribbean islands. Their forebears were sent from Ireland, Britain and Continental Europe as indentured servants, forced labourers, or peons.

A Béké are the white Creoles descended from the first European, usually French, settlers and planters mainly in Martinique, but also in Guadeloupe. The Békés are less than one percent of the population on both islands, numbering 3,000 on Martinique and 2,000 on Guadeloupe, yet they control much of the local industry.