It probably derives from the Ibibio and Efik Annang word mbakara, meaning (white) European or master.
From about the 16th century, enslaved West Africans, notably Igbo and Ibibio, were shipped to Jamaica to work on plantations.
It mentions the word buckra, "meaning man", used by Jamaican black people to greet strangers.
Other whites, such as military prisoners, widows, and orphans, brought to plantation owners to work in the fields were shipped to the Caribbean, effectively as poorly paid and treated servants and workers.
[9] In the second half of the 17th century, tens of thousands of indentured settlers of Barbados migrated to the other colonies when they did not secure the little piece of land they were supposed to get after the expiration of their contract.
[9] South Carolina, particularly, was founded by settlers from Barbados who brought many enslaved Africans with them.
This Creole is still spoken today by descendants of the Gullah people in the South Carolina and Georgia low-country region.