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- This myth is a deliberate lie. Irish immigrants to the Caribbean colonies were not slaves – they were a type of worker known as indentured servants.
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Sep 23, 2016 · The Irish slave trade began when James VI sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to...
Jun 18, 2020 · Matthew Brown. USA TODAY. 0:00. 0:53. The claim: Irish Americans were enslaved in the Americas and treated worse than enslaved Black people. National protests against police brutality amid a...
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Mar 17, 2017 · It has shown up on Irish trivia Facebook pages, in Scientific American magazine, and on white nationalist message boards: the little-known story of the Irish slaves who built America, who are...
The Irish slaves myth is a fringe pseudohistorical narrative that conflates the penal transportation and indentured servitude of Irish people during the 17th and 18th centuries, with the hereditary chattel slavery experienced by the forebears of the African diaspora.
In the last few years, a pseudo-historical claim has gone viral which suggests that Irish people who travelled to North America as indentured servants were slaves in the same way as Africans who were captured during the transatlantic slave trade.
