Zone1 Reparations for descendents of WHITE slaves?

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

You cannot argue with logic, reason, and facts.

Unless you're a lying, evil Democrat or Liberal Leftoid.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

I'm of Scottish descent so I'm waiting for the Italians, British, Danish and other peoples who ravished the country of my ancestors to pony up some dough.

 

[IM2]

The truth? Thomas Sowell is not the person to go to for the truth.

“I conservatively estimate that tens of millions of people have been exposed to ‘Irish slaves’ disinformation in one form or another on social media.” -Liam Hogan

From 2015 until 2019, Irish historian Liam Hogan compiled some fifty-two different articles debunking the tale of Irish slavery. According to Hogan and other Irish historians, the Irish were indentured servants and not slaves.

“The tale of the Irish slaves is rooted in a false conflation of indentured servitude and chattel slavery. These are not the same. Indentured servitude was a form of bonded labour, whereby a migrant agreed to work for a set period of time (between two and seven years) and in return the cost of the voyage across the Atlantic was covered. Indentured servitude was a colonial innovation that enabled many to emigrate to the New World while providing a cheap and white labour force for planters and merchants to exploit. Those who completed their term of service were awarded ‘freedom dues’ and were free. The vast majority of labourers who agreed to this system did so voluntarily, but there were many who were forcibly transplanted from the British Isles to the colonies and sold into indentured service against their will. While these forced deportees would have included political prisoners and serious felons, it is believed that the majority came from the poor and vulnerable. This forced labour was in essence an extension of the English Poor Laws, e.g. in 1697. John Locke recommended the whipping of those who ‘refused to work’ and the herding of beggars into workhouses. Indeed this criminalisation of the poor continues into the 21st century. In any case, all bar the serious felons were freed once the term of their contract expired.”- Liam Hogan

Liam Hogan, All of my work on the “Irish slaves” meme (2015–’19),

Liam Hogan, Irish slaves’: the convenient myth, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-andslavery/irish-slaves-convenient-myth