26 June 2020
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Debunked: Irish people were not the first slaves to arrive in the American colonies
Slave trading from Africa to the Americas began around 100 years before 1619, and indentured servitude is not the same as chattel slavery.
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Does This Photograph Show Irish Slaves in the United States? (Snopes)
A disturbing photo of mining conditions, likely from Belgium in the early 20th century, has often been misrepresented to fit various political narratives.
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No, The Irish Were Not Slaves Too
Historian Liam Hogan has spent the last six years debunking the Irish slave myth.
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Were the Irish slaves? Frederick Douglass and his Irish awakening
"But there was nothing like American slavery on the soil on which Douglass now stood. While he agreed that Irish people were oppressed, he did not believe that they were slaves. He went on to explain that the Irish, unlike slaves, had the freedom to marry, to protest, to move around and to emigrate."
