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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 .........
(Excerpt) Read more at settingrecordstraight.blogspot.com ...
“In 17th century Virginia”
Heck the most everyone in Jamestown had a terrible life expectancy. Not just the servants.
The seventeenth century ended in 1700. The population of Virginia was north of sixty thousand by then.
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saw this before and sent it on to Bill O’Reilly.
Still waiting for a response and that was over a year ago.
You are saying that enslaved Irish was all made up? You might want to tell these people.
Cromwell and the Irish slave trade
http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/yourview/cromwell-and-the-irish-slave-trade-221521.html
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America
http://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Cargo-Forgotten-History-Britains/dp/1845961935
To Hell or Barbados: The ethnic cleansing of Ireland
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0863222870/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1/280-2198399-3243324?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_r=04EEPG8W1B14ME23CM61&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=569136327&pf_rd_i=1845961935
Totally laughable. This is exactly the kind of over the top hysteria that makes people scoff at Freepers.
Possible 10,000 prisoners of war and other were forcibly sent to West Indies in the 1650s. They were pardoned by Charles II in 1660. There was no “Irish Slave Trade.” Indentured servants were not slaves by any reasonable definition of the term, and many Irish paid for transport across the Atlantic by voluntarily entering into indentured servitude.
It’s obscene and vile to compare the circumstances of the Irish to the African slave trade, many of whom were slave owners in the Caribbean and on the American continent. Having today looked into some memes circulating around the internet, including the junk history you link to above, all I can say is, wow, there’s a sucker born every minute.
Travis, this is T-Bone you’re talking to; of course I read that that short story!
But I see your point.
The only thing I have not read is Castigo Bay.
Meanwhile the alphabet agencies are controlling 50-75% of the western states, arresting farmers and ranchers, regulating them out of existence.
bkmk
Really, the “Alas” story is about the end of my thinking on that matter. We could have a great cataclysm. I see a lot of global forces lining up like waves from all over an ocean set to meet in a very high supernode. Sort of like 1914, with so many national armies mobilized, it becomes a “use it or lose it” proposition. I expect a summer worse than 1968, sort of Ferguson X Baltimore constantly. Perhaps a random Sirhan Sirhan or Arthur Bremer. Very bad mojo is afoot and not only here, but Europe, the Middle East, you name it. Not only across geographical and demographic dimensions, but financial, with the bill at the end of the Keynesian “Long Run” finally coming due. Batten down the hatches. Needless to say, this general battening down will strangle a struggling market, due to nervous jitters about uncertain futures.
bfl
ping
Note: this topic is from 3/18/2016. Thanks high info voter.
And to this day the sharks still circle in the Atlantic waiting for more Irish to be thrown overboard.
i demands reparations
lol
I only have one indentured servant in my ancestry, she was sold around age 11 or 12 I believe. She was not Irish though.
Read this years ago
http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring05/scots.cfm
Hard to differentiate what is the truth from what is a p.c. re-write.
This would certainly explain why there is so little information on my mother’s side of the family. Her mother’s maiden name was Keely, her father’s surname was Moore, and only the most recent information has been found.
Yessim. And once I get into a position where I have more and better access, as well as help from professionals, I will pursue this with a passion.
(And don’t forget the Duncan, about three generations back. We don’t know where they were from, though the name would indicate Scotland at some point.)
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