So, I am Irish, should I demand that the US government owes me for there past actions? Can I now walk around and complain that I was mistreated and abused? The Irish had a very bad start in America, read your history… Slavery was not just a black thing…
They came as slaves: human cargo transported on British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. Some were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.
But are we talking about African slavery? King James VI and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbour.
via IRISH: THE FORGOTTEN WHITE SLAVES | peoples trust toronto.
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Every race has suffered one way or another. I simply can’t understand why we all just can’t join together and live in peace. Why all the hatred? Everything is so simple. We as human beings make life complicated. We can’t acknowledge one races oppression and not address others!!!
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