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From: Richard Bond< >
Subject: Re: [CARIBBEAN] Re: British West Indian Regiment
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:16:39 -0400 (EDT)


The British War Department had a policy of not using colonials against
Europeans (whites) until WWII. That they were not soldiers in the Boer
War under those circumstances does not mean they weren't there. There
were besides Pres. Barclay of Liberia other soldiers who remained in
West Africa after srving in the BWIR bringing over their wives or
marrying locally. Mrs Barclay was a black South African.They were
important in introducing many items in trade to the indigenous. The West
Indian traders were also discriminated against in terms of credit by the
British mercantile houses who favored the Greeks and Lebanese.

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