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Like the movement of other European people to the Americas, Irish migration to the Caribbean and British North America had complex causes. The late sixteenth and early seventeenth century were a time of upheaval in Ireland, while English conquest and colonisation, resultant religious persecution, and crop failures (some as a deliberate result of the Tudor conquest of Ireland) drove many Irish ...
For example, images of child labourers, paintings of Roman-era slaves, and photographs of prisoners of war were all falsely captioned as evidence of Irish slaves. [38] "Almost all of the popular 'Irish slaves' articles are promoted by websites or Facebook groups based in the U.S. So it’s predominantly a social media phenomenon of white America."
However, this conflation of Irish indentured servants with African chattel slaves, known as the Irish slaves myth, is incorrect and ahistorical. Chattel slavery was a different legal category based on race as codified in The Barbados Slave Code, did not cease after a period of time (usually 7 years for indentured servitude), and stripped those ...
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Eleanor Butler (also known as Nell Butler or Irish Nell; born c. 1665 [a]) was an indentured white woman who married an enslaved African man in colonial Maryland in 1681. [ 1 ] Biography
The Healy family was an Irish-American and African-American family notable for the high achievements of its first generation of children, who were born into slavery in Georgia in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Irish slaves may refer to: Slavery in Ireland, the institution of slavery as it existed in Ireland; Irish indentured servants, Irish people who were transported to the Americas as indentured servants; Irish slaves myth, a pseudohistorical narrative regarding the comparison of Irish indentured servants to chattel slavery in the Americas
A Long Island middle school teacher is under fire for allegedly asking her students to "write something funny" underneath images of slaves. Last Friday, Darlene McCurty took to Facebook to ...