Forgotten white slaves
Feb 27, 2017 19:26:55 #
Feb 27, 2017 20:19:01 #
Thank you for posting. Both my maternal and paternal grandparents came here from Ireland. It is horrific what my (our) ancestors went through. If you're interested, there is a show about Irish slaves, building a railroad through West Virginia. Every single one died. I'm sure you can find it w/ a little help from Google. It's well worth the effort to find. Gary
Feb 28, 2017 07:26:26 #
silver-rail
Loc: harrisburg, pa
I want to thank you for this. My Grandparents came from Ireland and my grandmother told me terrible stories of what the English did to them. You could feel the hate coming from her
when she told us these stories.
when she told us these stories.
Feb 28, 2017 07:41:01 #
DAVE FISHING wrote:
Humans have always been horrible. Things will never change.
Feb 28, 2017 08:24:43 #
DAVE FISHING wrote:
Both my parents were immigrants. My father was from Ireland. I am told during WW2 he begged not to be sent to Europe. He did not want to fight for the British. The Army could not guarantee him that. He walked out and joined the Marines. He served in the Pacific.
Feb 28, 2017 08:29:08 #
There is a mountain of material debunking this as a myth. Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_slaves_myth.
Feb 28, 2017 11:23:35 #
Straight Shooter wrote:
There is a mountain of material debunking this as a myth. Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_slaves_myth.
So you haven't noticed Wikipedia changing history and words to fit the globalist agenda. I bought an older Webster dictionary man is the new ones been skewed.
Feb 28, 2017 12:02:51 #
OK, they were indentured servants, not slaves per se. But they were treated like slaves and frequently compared to Africans. I remember seeing a classic broadside showing the profile of an Englishman's face, an Irishman, and an African, the latter two with weirdly distorted features, clearly "proving" they were alike and not at all as civilized as the Englishman.
Feb 28, 2017 12:10:27 #
CaltechNerd wrote:
OK, they were indentured servants, not slaves per se. But they were treated like slaves and frequently compared to Africans. I remember seeing a classic broadside showing the profile of an Englishman's face, an Irishman, and an African, the latter two with weirdly distorted features, clearly "proving" they were alike and not at all as civilized as the Englishman.
My friend's mother came to this country from Ireland as a girl. She was as you say and "indentured servant" to a dentist and his family in Philadelphia, Pa. She was never treated badly. But not her own person at that time. That lasted 6 years.
Feb 28, 2017 13:02:07 #
silver-rail
Loc: harrisburg, pa
I have pictures showing them working the cotton fields and in the slave markets. compliments of my grandmother
Feb 28, 2017 15:18:03 #
Much of what's on Wiki is modifiable by just about anyone. My guess is that the word "myth has been inserted many times by revisionist historians like the Professor who debunked the "Irish Need Not Apply" signs that existed in the US throughout the 1840s, 50s,and 60s lasting to at least the 1930s in of all places my hometown of Boston, MA. He was of course set straight by a Middle School girl from the DC area who did her own first person research.
Mar 1, 2017 10:49:03 #
When having and using black and Native American slaves started to fall into disfavor, the indentured Irish were then put in their places. Anger at having to give up their former slaves (a great monetary loss), along with having less Irish to replace their numerous slaves, brought horrific conditions often worse than blacks and Indians had endured. Anyone who feels this is a myth and made up probably also says the Holocaust did not happen. Our family histories handed down over the generations tell us what was true and what was not.
Mar 1, 2017 11:01:51 #
Slavery (in one form or another) has a long and bloody history. Take a look at Exodus. The ancient Egyptians held laves, mostly . Jews. Romans captured slaves from many conquered lands. Europeans as well as American Indians (excuuuse me-Native Americans) captured slaves. Even today slavery still exists. We humans are a truly uncivilized species. We are still apes fighting at the water hole.
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