Sobering. Need another soul cookie after reading this ...
On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 08:55:00PM +0000, Barry Gibbs Me Dats wrote: > > juan juan.g71 > > Fri Feb 9 09:36:06 PST 2018 > > > who writes this shit > IDK. > Last one. > > - - - … > Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English > merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were > actually white. > > >From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and > another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from > about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped > apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and > children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless > population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to > auction them off as well. > > During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and > 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, > Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and > children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men > and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, > Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold > as slaves to English settlers. > > Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly > were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to > describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the > 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle. …
