Before the mid-1700's, The trade in Irish child slaves ("youngsters") was the second biggest business, after the cod-fishery, in Newfoundland. They would be used to carry out the seasonal inshore small boat fishery, and on the return journey they were to be discarded at sea, replaced with a new crop of children each spring (which would also aid in the depopulation of the Irish and their eventual replacement with English planters...sound familiar?). It's because of the ship captains who refused to carry out these orders and instead set the children free to take their chances in the Talamnh an Eisc (NfLd is the only country in NA to have its own name in the Irish language) that the Granite Planet was teaming with Irish immigrants a century before the potato famine was unleashed....but I guess we're just supposed to forget about that now.
Before the mid-1700's, The trade in Irish child slaves ("youngsters") was the second biggest business, after the cod-fishery, in Newfoundland. They would be used to carry out the seasonal inshore small boat fishery, and on the return journey they were to be discarded at sea, replaced with a new crop of children each spring (which would also aid in the depopulation of the Irish and their eventual replacement with English planters...sound familiar?). It's because of the ship captains who refused to carry out these orders and instead set the children free to take their chances in the Talamnh an Eisc (NfLd is the only country in NA to have its own name in the Irish language) that the Granite Planet was teaming with Irish immigrants a century before the potato famine was unleashed....but I guess we're just supposed to forget about that now.
https://everythinggp.com/2022/04/28/n-l-s-quidi-vidi-village-drops-plantation-from-building-name-ahead-of-royal-visit/