There’s alot of black guys named McMillan, McDonald, Campbell, etc. Now we know why. ;o)
So they really did have an red headed irish step uncle.
Their known as the Black Irish...typified by names like O'Bama.
Not really. It was typical that American slaves took the last name of their master. My slave owning ancestors gave theirs the last name of Elliott, same as theirs. How do I know you ask? They registered the slaves birth with the state of Virginia (1850-60s) as required by law. Course I got other relations on the other side of the Mason Dixon Line and the other side of the late unpleasantness. As do many folks.
To #7, re Blacks w/Irish names. Pls read “The Story of the Irish Race” by Seamus McManus; Devon-Adair; Chapter LI; pps 428-435, (incl/footnotes), “The Cromwellian Settlement”.
“...young men, and of the young women and boys and girls, numbers were, during the following years shipped into slavery to the American colonies and the West Indies. The numbers thus sent to slavery are variously estimated at between thirty thousand and eighty thousand.”
Black slaves were dying off due to the terrible conditions so the English forced Irish slaves to reproduce w/Blacks, w/o benefit of clergy, so as to keep the work force going. On some islands, up to the late 1800s, the Irish was spoken.