Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
After the battle(the last of the Civil War) several thousand Highlanders were deported by the victor, Cromwell, mainly to the West Indies I believe.
Many ended up in America, the lists of Scottish slaves can still be read and include many Highland names. The link is for just one journey on one ship, I believe. Estimates of the total number of Scottish slaves sent to the Americas at this time are high. Out of a total of 25,000 slaves in Barabados in 1701, 21,700 are reported to be white people known to the locals as "redshanks".

I am assuming that the Highland prisoners from Worcester would have been mainly "humblies" and dressed in that manner.