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Hamilton Brown DID import Irish and a LOT of them!
“Hamilton Brown was instrumental in the importing of several hundred labourers and their families from Ireland to Jamaica between 1835 and 1840.”
Carl H. Senior ‘”Robert Kerr”: Emigrants of 1840 Irish Slaves for Jamaica’, Jamaica Journal no. 42, summarised by Madeleine Mitchell, Jamaican Ancestry “
Remember the Blacks were freed in 1833 so Hamilton Brown, a major planter imported Irish to replace them.
It includes Irish as debtor slaves.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/11358
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The Arrival Of The Irish

…The Irish arrived in Jamaica over 350 years ago in the mid-1600s at the time of British Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell’s capture of Jamaica….
It is estimated that somewhere between 30,000 and 80,000 Irish were shipped from Ireland. One of the last shipments was made in 1841 from Limerick aboard the Robert Kerr….
….other European immigrants did not seem to fare as well as the Irish in the tropical climate. In the mid-1830s, for example, when the government was particularly concerned about replacement labour for the newly-freed slaves on the sugar and coffee plantations, the over 1,000 Germans and close to 200 Portugese from Madeira, the Azores and Portugal notched a high mortality rate. The idea was to eventually create townships for the European immigrants in the island’s highlands where the temperature was cooler and they would work as small farmers, labourers and artisans on coffee estates and cattle pens. However, this would take time and in order to maintain pre-abolition levels of production, labour was needed in Jamaica’s low-lands where the best land for sugar cultivation was located. Hence the implementation of bounties for European immigrants and the institution of ships like the Robert Kerr, known as “man-traps” and sub-agents who wandered into quiet Irish towns and attracted people with the promise for free passage, high wages and the hope of bettering their lives…

Hamilton Brown, Kamala Harris’ paternal ancestor, an attorney, enslaved Africans, Creole, Irish . . . white, black and brown alike, and persecuted Methodist, Baptist and Anglican abolitionists
A lot more: https://americans4innovation.blogspot.com/2019/07/kamala-harris-jamaican-descendants-led.html
HAMILTON BROWN ENSLAVED 2,158 AFRICAN & CREOLE AND MORE THAN 2,000 IRISHUniversity College London has published about 100 pages of Hamilton Brown’s legacy of slave ownership based upon court records of his attorney work as a receiver, executor, trustee and awardee for numerous plantation owners and the claimed slave properties bought, sold and transferred.
These records reveal that Hamilton Brown managed 2,089 enslaved souls for his clients and was awarded 69 slaves in part payment for his legal fees….