"Two English indentured servants from the Salisbury Uprising of 1655 deported to Barbados by Cromwell complain of inhuman treatment." (1)
(1) Don Mitchell, "Marcellus Rivers and Oxenbridge Foyle," Mitchell's West Indian Bibliography, accessed 29 November 2007.
(2) Marcellus Rivers and Oxenbridge Foyle, England's Slavery or Barbados Merchandize: Represented in a Petition to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament by M Rivers and O Foyle, Gentlemen, on the Behalf of Themselves and Three-score and Ten more Free-born Englishmen Sold, Uncondemned, into Slavery: Together with Letters Written to some Honourable Members of Parliament (London, 1659).
(3) "The Diary of Thomas Burton: 25 March 1658-9," Diary of Thomas Burton esq, volume 4: March - April 1659 (1828), pp. 254-73. Date accessed: 29 November 2006.
(4) "House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 25 March 1659," Journal of the House of Commons: volume 7: 1651-1660 (1802), pp. 619-20. Date accessed: 29 November 2006.
(5) Jill Sheppard, The "Redlegs" of Barbados: Their Origins and History (Millwood, New York: KTO Press, 1977), 19.
(6) Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004), 210-211.