Satyarupa DD-acbsp: Terrible. The Irish were also sold as slaves - TopicsExpress



          

Satyarupa DD-acbsp: Terrible. The Irish were also sold as slaves by the British. The Irish slave trade began when the English king 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..... globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade.../31076 and here: irishcentral/.../irish-the-forgotten-white.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:00:05 +0000

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