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Perhaps Facebook added this book ad to my feed because my last name is so obviously Irish. "Brutalized: A Novel of White Slaves in Colonial America" by JR Thompson is described on Amazon as "clean ...
Vice President Kamala Harris descended from an infamous Irish slave owner who actively worked against abolition. The presidential hopeful’s paternal great-grandmother, Christiana Brown, is a ...
It’s the claim that Irish people were slaves in the Americas, particularly the British West Indies, and that they were treated just as badly as – or worse than – their African counterparts.
Are memes calling the Irish “the first slaves” an attempt to derail conversations about slavery and modern-day racism?
The Irish Slaves: Slavery, Indenture and Contract Labour Among Irish Immigrants by Rhetta Akamatsu narrates, not only some often overlooked history, but a tale of humanity that both endures and is ...
The “White Irish Slaves” meme and myth needed to be debunked in order to combat contemporary neo-fascism and to set the historical record straight.
Vice President Kamala Harris is the descendant of a notorious Irish slave owner and human trafficker who opposed abolition. Harris, who is of Indian and Afro-Jamaican descent, is the great-great ...
LONDON -- St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, may well have been a tax collector for the Romans who fled to Ireland where he could have traded slaves to pay his way, according to new research by ...
Irish slave owner's role in illegal slave trafficking in 1860 explored in Netflix documentary "Descendant" follows descendants of slaves brought to the US on the Clotilda as they attempt to ...
Stop Messaging Me, a Black Journalist, About White Irish “Slaves” A wide-ranging conversation about how white people became “white.” Garrison Hayes Video Correspondent Bio ...
A Facebook post falsely claiming that Irish people were systematically sold as slaves in the 17th century has been shared almost one million times. The post, which has been debunked by the Reuters ...
"The Irish were slaves too ..." Is it true? If we're talking about slavery as it was practiced on Africans in the United States—that is, hereditary chattel slavery—then the answer is a clear ...