IRISH: THE FORGOTTEN WHITE SLAVES

Setting The Record Straight ^ | 3/16/15 | Ronald Dwyer

[lizma2]

Not arguing but from what I read over the years, some were, some weren’t.

I’m just saying the label “indentured servent” was used to cover up the fact that the Irish and Scots were are first slaves in the colonies.

[wardaddy]

I’m with you

It’s more about Catholics as victims and

It’s beat up Cromwell day

I’m Irish too..ulster Scot

But that’s different

No comparison between Irish slave or servant trade and the Negro trade

Much as I loathe black victim hood and culture blight

[Pelham]

“It’s beat up Cromwell day”

That rat stole my ancestors’ estates!

but since I’ve got Scots, Scots-Irish and English blood as well I can choose any and all sides of this battle.

[karnage]

Today, the equivalent is abortion. America must awaken from her moral slumber and ban this hideous, murderous, barbarous practice of human sacrifice.

[Yo-Yo]

"But we don't what the Irish!"

[Deek]

We are Irish on my mom’s side. A segment being endentured from the 1600’s, but a lot of history lost due to young family members “orphaned” (I.e. Passed to other places to work).

[Mjreagan]

My father’s side came here to escape the famine. I suppose they were a bit ‘luckier’ at least for a time. I’m glad we both ended up here, I’m not very impressed with or fond of the politics of our ancestral home.

[Oberon]

Well, in the “English” civil war about 1% of the population of England died, in Scotland it was 3%, in Ireland it was something like 40%! And yet Ireland will feature as little more than a footnote in British history books discussing the English Civil War.

If you want to write the history books, you have to win the wars.

[fruser1]

Good reference.

I usually point to Jewish slaves of Egypt as the example of non-black slavery. This is better!

[oh8eleven]

Thanks to the Penal Laws, Irish Catholics were slaves in their own country as well ...

• He was forbidden to receive education.
• He was forbidden to enter a profession.
• He was forbidden to hold public office.
• He was forbidden to engage in trade or commerce.
• He was forbidden to live in a corporate town or within five miles thereof.
• He was forbidden to own a horse of greater value than five pounds.
• He was forbidden to own land.
• He was forbidden to lease land.
• He was forbidden to accept a mortgage on land in security for a loan.
• He was forbidden to vote.
• He was forbidden to keep any arms for his protection.
• He was forbidden to hold a life annuity.
• He was forbidden to buy land from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to receive a gift of land from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to inherit land from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to inherit anything from a Protestant.
• He was forbidden to rent any land that was worth more than 30 shillings a year.
• He was forbidden to reap from his land any profit exceeding a third of the rent.
• He could not be guardian to a child.
• He could not, when dying, leave his infant children under Catholic guardianship.
• He could not attend Catholic worship.
• He was compelled by law to attend Protestant worship.
• He could not himself educate his child.
• He could not send his child to a Catholic teacher.
• He could not employ a Catholic teacher to come to his child.
• He could not send his child abroad to receive education.

[uncbob]

UNCONQUERED is a 1947 adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard.

Whites being sold as slaves is part of the background of the movie

It would never be made today

[BudgieRamone]

Song “John Riley” by a folk group called Grada describes this incident. It’s kind of a catchy tune.

[small farm girl]

Same story in my husband’s family of McKenny. Dumped in Maine somewhere in the 1600s.

[af_vet_1981]

It was a war on Catholics.

[inchworm]

Where’s my reparations?

[af_vet_1981]

Do you realize what that painting depicts an imaginary sale in the Roman Empire and has nothing to do with the British oppression of the Irish Catholics ?

Sale of a Slave Girl in Rome, 1884

By: Jean Leon Gerome

[GailA]

Yep, forgotten also are the plight of the Scots and Welsh at the hands of the English and their own Lords mostly Lowlanders close to the English border who cleared out hundreds of thousands who worked the land for generations so they could raise more profitable sheep. Many died in battle, sickness, and came to America as Indentured ‘servants’ or should I say slaves. Women were used as whores to their masters with the children then rejected by those masters who begot them on them.

Few remember William Wallace fight and death, or how The Bruce turned on his own people, only to find the English didn’t keep their word.

Look what the Roman’s did to enslave so many in their quest for world dominance.

My dad was a SPIC or WOP, second gen. American. Mom’s side was Scot, English, German and who knows what else.

[oh8eleven]

No reparations - just more hunger, disease and death.
The Irish were subjected to the Great Famine (1845-1859) which
forced almost a million to flee to America ... including my ggGrandparents.

Their suffering and ultimate act of courage escaping Ireland allowed me to live in the greatest country the world has ever known.
I've been grateful every day of my life.

[Albion Wilde]

This is basically stormfront junk history.

Oh, really? Set aside 50 minutes to watch this film, which shows the descendents of those captured Irish people now living in dire poverty in Barbados:

The Irish Sugar Slaves of Barbados

[Diapason]

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