☘️☘️☘️ - A Friendly Reminder on #StPatricksDay
“Unlike chattel slavery, Irish indentured servitude was neither hereditary nor lifelong; unlike black slaves, Irish servants had rights; unlike black slaves, indentured servants weren't property.”
@Black_andirish
“Unlike chattel slavery, Irish indentured servitude was neither hereditary nor lifelong; unlike black slaves, Irish servants had rights; unlike black slaves, indentured servants weren't property.”
@Black_andirish
NO, THE IRISH WERE NOT SLAVES TOO
Historian Liam Hogan has spent the last six years debunking the Irish slave myth.
#StPatricksDay
psmag.com/social-justice…
Historian Liam Hogan has spent the last six years debunking the Irish slave myth.
#StPatricksDay
psmag.com/social-justice…
"So, if these people were free men and not Irish slaves, why do so many people online repeat the nonsense that they were slaves? The answer is that it is based on a misinterpretation of one of the main texts in the development of the Irish slaves meme, ....
.., an article called England’s Irish Slaves (1995) by Robert E. West.
cassidyslangscam.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/iri…
@drantbradley @drantbradley @ayittey
cassidyslangscam.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/iri…
@drantbradley @drantbradley @ayittey
"As with so many elements of the Irish slavery meme, bad reading of texts and endless copying of secondary sources without checking the facts has turned this baseless nonsense into ‘a thing’."
The facts of the matter are quite clear.
"In 1612, a group of Munster Irish settlers went to the Amazon. They were led by two brothers from Youghal called Purcell. None of them were slaves."
"In 1612, a group of Munster Irish settlers went to the Amazon. They were led by two brothers from Youghal called Purcell. None of them were slaves."
Let's Squash the Myth That the Irish Were Ever American Slaves
#StPatricksDay
theattic.jezebel.com/lets-squash-th… via @jezebel
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theattic.jezebel.com/lets-squash-th… via @jezebel
"The Irish were slaves, too" amounts to an abuse of Irish American and African American history, nay it is an abuse of history itself, as it wilfully pits these diasporas and their tragic histories against one another to score political points.”
— Liam Hogan
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— Liam Hogan
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Racial Slavery Denialism
“It does not argue that the Transatlantic Slave Trade did not happen, instead claims that it does not matter, that it has no legacy.“
— Liam Hogan
“It does not argue that the Transatlantic Slave Trade did not happen, instead claims that it does not matter, that it has no legacy.“
— Liam Hogan
"False equivalence and an endless dishonest minimisation are characteristics of both Racial slavery denialism and Holocaust denialism.The system of racialised perpetual hereditary chattel slavery that was developed in the New World by Europeans has NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY."
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
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