Interesting video on Irish slavery in the New World

[lg325]

I have been watching it and thought I would share it on this board for those with a deep interest in history.

 

[Moonglow]

It wasn't forgotten history since I have read about it before.

 

[Manonthestreet]

I need reparations

 

[Hossfly]

It wasn't forgotten history since I have read about it before.

Who said it was forgotten or did you forget who said it?

 

[Moonglow]

Who said it was forgotten or did you forget who said it?

The feller on the video said it was.

 

[Hossfly]

The feller on the video said it was.

Is he Irish? I want my money. Raht now!

 

[Moonglow]

Is he Irish? I want my money. Raht now!

Me too. Hawkins County Tennessee is where mine landed.

 

[evenflow1969]

Most likely all of us have ancestors that were slaves. I am mainly English. The vikings tore across England raping, pillaging and taking slaved. Native American tribes would conquer other tribes and enslave them. We have a dark history across every corner of the planet.

 

[MisterBeale]

Black Irish Identities: The complex relationship between Irish and African Americans​

Exploring the identity of the Black Irish in the US.​

Black Irish Identities: The complex relationship between Irish and African Americans

African-American Lenwood Sloan was in his 20s before he learned why his father insisted he is nice to the lone elderly white man that lived at the end of their block. Little was he expecting to discover that his family had a secret – that the man was his great-grandfather.

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"African-American Lenwood Sloan was in his 20s before he learned why his father insisted he is nice to the lone elderly white man that lived at the end of their block. Little was he expecting to discover that his family had a secret – that the man was his great-grandfather.

“Why was it kept a secret?” Sloan asks of the intrigued crowd, gathered back in 2015 to hear him delve into the complex history between Irish-Americans and African-Americans at “Black-Irish Identities: A Symposium” at Glucksman Ireland House, New York.

When faced with the facts, the appearance of a white man in Sloan’s family tree does not seem all that surprising. People such as Barack Obama, Muhammad Ali, Eddie Murphy, Billie Holiday, and Beyonce all have traces of Irish DNA or Irish ancestors.

Thirty-eight percent of African-Americans have some percentage of Irish DNA, Sloan claims, and there is a history of intermarriage between the two communities in places such as New Orleans that dates back to a time when African-American men had a life expectancy of 14 years while Irish-American men lived to 31. In contrast, Sloan tells how African-American women had an average life expectancy of 36 while Irish women could only be expected to live to 18.. .."

Who were the Black Irish, and what is their story?​

A subject of historical discussion, the phrase Black Irish is almost never referred to in Ireland.​

Who were the Black Irish, and what is their story?

There are a number of different claims as to the origin of the term Black Irish, from the Spanish Armada to the Vikings. Did the Black Irish exist?

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". . . One such example is that of the hundreds of thousands of Irish peasants who emigrated to America after the Great Famine of 1845 to 1849. 1847 was known as "black 47." The potato blight which destroyed the main source of sustenance turned the vital food black. It is possible that the arrival of large numbers of Irish after the famine into America, Canada, Australia, and beyond resulted in their being labeled as "black" in that they escaped from this new kind of black death.

Immigrant groups throughout history have generally been treated poorly by the indigenous population (or by those who simply settled first).

Derogatory names for immigrant groups are legion and in the case of those who left Ireland include "Shanty Irish" and almost certainly "Black Irish." It is also possible that within the various Irish cultures that became established in America that there was a pecking order, a class system that saw some of their countrymen labeled as "black. . . . "