Posted on 03/18/2016 4:43:22 AM PDT by high info voter
They came as slaves: human cargo transported on British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. Some were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.
But are we talking about African slavery? King James VI and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbor.
The Irish slave trade began when James VI sold 30,000 Irish .........
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yo, demands reparations
lol
You might also mention “The Famine Queen” Victoria Regina. During the Irish potato famine grain was exported from Ireland, and the Crown offered no help to the Irish.
There is actually a club of folks who think Richard III was much maligned
I’d reckon Marmie who is a great contributor here is likely a member
Marmie, lol? I feel like the mother in Little Women!
You might be fascinated to know I’m not a member. The R3 Society has now turned on Richard the Third! It’s gone completely politically correct and if you’re a member, you have to dislike Richard. Needless to say, they’ve had a mass exodus of members.
Yes, I’m a huge fan of the last Plantagenet king. A true democrat, he, like Trump, took on the establishment. Unlike Trump, he didn’t thrive but was taken down so we all try hard to rehabilitate him.
He also disliked muslims.
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