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Where are my reparations? I demand my reparations!
1 posted on 03/23/2015 9:28:55 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
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James II wasn’t king of england until 1685. how could he have enslaved the irish in 1625?


60 posted on 03/23/2015 12:38:35 PM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson (An amateur built the Ark; professionals built the Titanic)
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King James II was born in 1633. He was also the last Catholic Monarch. Cromwell was the main pusher of transportation. The history is close, but slightly off. In most cases, it wasn't chattel slavery, which is what separates it from the blacks. It's a significant difference.

There were a large number of Irish who were sentenced to "transportion" to other areas (colonies, Australia). Often, it was 7 years. Those who were transported had to pay their own way so they were in debt. "Indentured servants" basically.

Barbados and Montserrat are the two most well known places outside of Australia were the Irish were sent. Montserrat has a significant mixed Irish-Black today. It was complicated there as with everything else. You had Irish plantation owners there along with Irish indentured and black slaves.

63 posted on 03/23/2015 1:48:08 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Mike Pence in 2016)
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