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The Irish Slave Trade - The Forgotten “White” Slaves  see also  Mass Graves in Ireland at bottom of page..and Born Fighting 

More on white Slaves

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The Slaves That Time Forgot By  John Martin

Authors Bio: Media Consultant that cares about the future of America and the endless possibilities this nation possesses.   

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? After all, 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 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 James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His 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. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle.

As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts.

African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African.

The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude.

In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new “mulatto” slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves.

This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.

England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia.

There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat.

There is little question that the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not more in the 17th Century) as the Africans did. There is, also, very little question that those brown, tanned faces you witness in your travels to the West Indies are very likely a combination of African and Irish ancestry.

In 1839, Britain finally decided on it’s own to end it’s participation in Satan’s highway to hell and stopped transporting slaves. While their decision did not stop pirates from doing what they desired, the new law slowly concluded THIS chapter of nightmarish Irish misery.

But, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was only an African experience, then they’ve got it completely wrong.

Irish slavery is a subject worth remembering, not erasing from our memories. But, where are our public (and PRIVATE) schools???? Where are the history books? Why is it so seldom discussed?

Do the memories of hundreds of thousands of Irish victims merit more than a mention from an unknown writer? Or is their story to be one that their English pirates intended: To (unlike the African book) have the Irish story utterly and completely disappear as if it never happened.

None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books conveniently forgot.

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Scientists isolate Irish DNA for the first time ever     

Irish People are “Celtic” & have a different genetically white make up than that of Other White Europeans……Like the english.

We are distinct from other Europeans and have our own genetic structure', said Professor Loftus. Dr Gerard Cagney

More About Genes - The Irish Really are a race apart 
By Dr. Emmeline Hill


 

the Irish aren’t genetically the same as white Europeans...

Although we as a people were actually the first kings of Europe we we’re a well travelled people who eventually settled in Ireland & Scotland….. hence the connection with the pair! The Celtics we’re - are a proud & culturally rich race of people who spent hundreds of years fighting English oppression. Not only on our own soil but also in the lslands of the caribbean & Bermuda and the U.S.A.. We are not to be confused as white Europeans….. WE ARE CELTS……… Tiocfaidh ar La….

 The CELTS read more history

The History you didn't get in school........The Irish knew!
(Gives another good reason for the Born Fighting lable)
The Mass Graves Of Ireland (170) see map  at link for grave site locations.
Ireland starved not because of the "Potato Famine" the big lie,1845-1850, but because its food, from 40 to 70 shiploads per day, was removed at gunpoint.
If Britain's census figures for Ireland are correct the British government murdered approximately 5.16 million,  ( corrected from 5.16 to 5.26 ) million Irish men, women and children; making it the Irish Holocaust.
 
It was not a crime to kill any Irish , from 1600 to 1699, far more Irish were sold as slaves than Africans.
 
White slavery, part 4 U-Tube  see also parts 1,2,3,
 
First Christian (Protestant Huguenots) massacred (1565) on U.S. soil at Fort Caroline.. (moved later to new area called Port Royal)
Payback..The Expedition of Revenge..... De Gourgue' Expedition 
 
The "Star Spangled Banner" was a poem originally titled "The Defense of Fort McHenry" and was written by Francis Scott Key on September 20, 1814
 
  Tribute To All Past and Present U.S.A. Christian Soldiers....Freedom is Never Free..
We The People   and America will prevail!  Video 3
 
'It is a pardonable prejudice, for the Irishman never fights so well as when he has an Irishman for his comrade. An Irishman going into the field in this cause, has this as the strongest impulse and his richest reward, that his conduct in the field will reflect honour on the old land he will see no more. He therefore wishes that if he falls, it will be into the arms of one of the same nativity, that all may hear that he died in a manner worthy of the cause in which he fell, and the country which gave him birth. This is the explanation why Irishmen desire to be together in the fight for the Stars and Stripes, and I am sure there is not a native-born citizen here who will not confess that it is a pardonable, a generous, and a useful prejudice.'
 
A distinguished colonel, of genuine American race, who bore on his body the marks of many wounds, life memorials of desperate fights, was speaking to me of the gallantry of the Irish; and he thus wound up:
 But I found the most pious of them the very bravest--and that astonished me more than anything. Sir, I saw these men tried in every way that men could be tried, and I never saw anything superior to them. Why, sir, if I wanted to storm the gates of hell, I didn't want any finer or braver fellows than those Irishmen. click for more
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