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Ireland, Empire, and Slavery

Ireland, Empire, and Slavery

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What about the prison colonies in Australia.
Would that be considered slavery?
Certainly unpaid work.

Men with starving families who poached a pheasant or stole a loaf of bread were deported and put to work in camps.

I’d never heard of Irish slave labour in the US.


"O’Neill, who is one of the professors leading Trinity’s historical
investigation, said about 3% or 4% of the British empire’s slave
owners were Irish and that others, being Catholic, were also able
to operate in French, Spanish and other empires.
——

This would have to be a small group indeed.
Most Irish catholics were farmers and/ or very poor.



All Ye Irish... REPARATIONS!

all the crown jewels ought to do it, eh?

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@shavixmir said
What about the prison colonies in Australia.
Would that be considered slavery?
Certainly unpaid work.

Men with starving families who poached a pheasant or stole a loaf of bread were deported and put to work in camps.

I’d never heard of Irish slave labour in the US.
What about the flood of illegal border crossers that will work for a small percentage of the going rate? that is a form of slavery too. Dont forget, that is how slavery in the US got its start with indentured servants. They come here voluntarily to work for a small sum.

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@shavixmir said
What about the prison colonies in Australia.
Would that be considered slavery?
Certainly unpaid work.

Men with starving families who poached a pheasant or stole a loaf of bread were deported and put to work in camps.

I’d never heard of Irish slave labour in the US.
Mehhh. Indentured servants.


Irish indentured servants in the colonial Americas The claim that Irish people were enslaved in the British American Colonies stems from a misrepresentation of the idea of “ indentured servitude.” Indentured servants were people required to complete unpaid labor for a contracted period.


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Yes darling. I understand what you wrote.
My point is... I’d never heard of Irish slaves in the US... so you telling it isn’t true that there were Irish slaves is like me telling you that I am actually NOT the love child of Donald trump and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.


The Princess is showing signs of brain fog

disjointed points in two threads now



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LOL! abysmal reading comprehension , sure. 😉 😛

Duchess64 inferred that if EoT favors one people's revolt, EoT must favor *all* people's revolts, lest be a hypocrite. Isn't that right, Duchess64.

That's not reading comprehension, that is pure idiocy on Duchess' behalf.

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@Duchess64

[COUGH] - what a bunch of Guano. Dang.

So if EoT supports the American Revolution of 1765, then I *must* support the Myanmar insurgents
rising up against military rule, right?

Ok.

So where's your hypocrisy, Princess? - like I said, Brain Fog.

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