https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall 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. They 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 II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbor.
The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.
Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.
From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.
During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.
Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to describe what occurred to the Irish.
Read the book, as an Irish-American found it interesting. Author says many white Irish women force into Marriages with blacks to produce more Brownish slaves. This could be check easily. The 7 Daughters of Eve theory says that since everyone gets their Mitochondrial genetic Material from the mother only, there should be a LARGE amount of Black people with the white strain in the cell nucleus. Someone should do an inquire into this. I'm surprised no one has.
I'm pretty sure they have. Ancestry and 23 & Me are compromised and are likely hiding the truth.
There was a report somewhere that found people at 23 & me were arbitrarily adding 1% black to ALL reports. The bastards. I wish I could find, Ill have to see if I can find it.
Wow. Funny you say that. I was going to include in my comment that my Polish and Italian buddy got his results saying he was 1% Jewish. He was pretty pissed (reason I deleted it), but now I'm wondering if there is an agenda here. 🤷♂️
They are playing with our minds. "See, your one of them yourself so how can you say ANYTHING derogatory about them?" cute game.
Oh please. Surely you're not suggesting that this never happened.
And just going with the most efficient means to producing more "brownish" slaves, one white plantation owner impregnating multiple black slaves could produce dozens of "brownish" slaves in the same time as one black man impregnating a white woman would.
Like slave owners wouldn't rape their slaves because of some ethical or moral issue they have. 🙄
What in the hell does that have to do with your statement that plantation owners weren't raping their slaves?
Do you think that they knew about mitochondrial DNA back then?
And this is just taking it as a given that the info about the 7 daughters of eve theory is correct, which I can't say because I'm not yet familiar enough with it.
Edited to add: I'm surely not an expert in DNA, but are you suggesting that due to whatever it is that the 7 Daughters of Eve theory thing says, that White Ass Daddy plus Black Ass Mama does not (at least sometimes) produce "Brownish" Ass Babies?
Bonus points if you recognize the Archer reference.