one more- Irish were slaves as well here in America and other countries like Jamaica AND Caribbean Islands-
“The Slavery of “Whites” actually goes back some time. It has been said for instance, that Scotch-Irish have been slaves longer than any other race in the history of the world. We are not going to cover all of that here. Instead, we are going to shed some light on a few things that most obviously never heard about in school in regard to white slaves in the Americas.”
In the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series; America and West Indies of 1701, we read of a protest over the “encouragement to the spiriting away of Englishmen without their consent and selling them for slaves, which hath been a practice very frequent and known by the name of kidnapping.” (Emphasis added). In the British West Indies, plantation slavery was instituted as early as 1627. In Barbados by the 1640s there were an estimated 25,000 slaves, of whom 21,700 were White. (“Some Observations on the Island of Barbados,” Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series). It is worth noting that while White slaves were worked to death in Barbados, there were Caribbean Indians brought from Guiana to help propagate native foodstuffs who were well-treated and received as free persons by the wealthy planters.”
https://www.educationviews.org/white-slaves-america/
I do believe I said “in the 1850s” when I replied about the Irish being slaves. I have no doubt that in earlier Colonial periods, there was in fact slavery of Irish and other whites. This practice had in fact died out by the 1850s, and, in any case, was never to the industrial level as was practiced in the 1850s, nor was it enshrined in the legal fabric of the nation.
Just to make it clear, I am not in favor or reparations to any descendants of any enslaved persons. I just believe that the formal enslavement of nearly 4 million African Americans in this country is without parallel.