Synopsis

When Oliver Cromwell transported 50,000 Scottish slaves to Barbados during an unprecedented act of ethnic cleansing, they disappeared from the history books. Three hundred years later, BBC broadcaster and writer Chris Dolan goes in search of their descendants, the island’s Redlegs, a small community still eking out a subsistence existence.

Details

(49mins) | United Kingdom

Language:

English

Production

Directors:

Lydia Conway, Paul Arnott and Sean Brennan

Lydia Conway, Paul Arnott and Sean Brennan’s credits range from the Miramax/C4 film A Midsummer Night’s Dream to RTE’s The Zoo. Presenter Chris Dolan is a novelist, playwright, radio and screenwriter. The team are reuniting to make a feature film based on Dolan’s latest novel, Redlegs, also set in Scotland and Barbados.