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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Irish_slaves_mythIrish slaves myth - Wikipedia

    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.

  4. www.snopes.com › fact-check › irish-slaves-early-americaWere There Irish Slaves in America, Too? | Snopes.com

    Sep 23, 2016 · David Emery. Published Sept. 23, 2016. Claim: Early in America's history, white Irish slaves outnumbered Black slaves and endured worse treatment at the hands of their masters. Rating:...

  5. www.usatoday.com › story › newsFact check: Irish were indentured servants, not slaves

    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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  7. fullfact.org › online › Irish-SlavesThe “Irish slave” myth has been widely discredited - Full Fact

    Jul 8, 2020 · 8 July 2020. What was claimed. Irish people were forced into slavery in British Colonies for hundreds of years. Our verdict. This is incorrect. Claiming the Irish experience of indentured servitude was chattel slavery is a misrepresentation of history. We’ve seen numerous claims online that white Irish people were enslaved for hundreds of years.

  8. www.nytimes.com › 2017/03/17 › usDebunking a Myth: The Irish Were Not Slaves, Too - The New ...

    Mar 17, 2017 · March 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...

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  10. www.factchecking.ie › articles › were-irish-peopleWere Irish people really sent to the Americas as slaves?

    In the case of the ‘Irish slaves’ meme, claimants draw equivalence between the experiences of Irish workers or penal servants who were sent to North America in the 17th century and those of millions of Africans who faced inter-generational chattel slavery over centuries.

  11. www.theguardian.com › world › 2021Trinity College reckons with slavery links as Ireland ...

    Mar 7, 2021 · Sun 7 Mar 2021 01.00 EST. It was one of the most shocking chapters in Britain’s long, bloody subjugation of Ireland: the buying, selling and transportation of Irish chattel slaves to the...

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