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My thoughts on the complexities involved in discussing or explaining slavery & indentured servitude in the 17th C colonial context.
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Liam Hogan Retweeted
President Higgins: Universities facing ‘intellectual crisis’ http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/president-higgins-universities-facing-intellectual-crisis-1.2602607#.VwevomCc7F1.twitter … via
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Great article by Anne Twitty on the aforementioned Roger B. Taney, who ignored history to reinforce proslavery dogma http://werehistory.org/erased/
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It's a dystopian development when potentially more is spent by corporations and individuals *avoiding tax* than is invested in communities.
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Especially today when we know that hundreds of public libraries are closing (and have closed) across the UK http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35707956 …
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(or rather many of their descendants) often do what they can to avoid paying tax back to the State.
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With the revelations in the
#Panamapapers I can't help but think of this intervention by the State, and how those that benefitted the most -
Liam Hogan Retweeted
@Limerick1914 Let's not forget that Cameron is also descended from William IV - a die-hard champion of slavery. -
and his wife Samantha Cameron (née Sheffield) is descended from William Jolliffe who was awarded compensation for 164 slaves in St Lucia.
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Included in the list was David Cameron's distant cousin Sir James Duff who claimed for his 202 slaves in Jamaica. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/how-do-we-know-david-cameron-has-slave-owning-ancestor …
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This payout lead to a huge surge in private capital investment, speculation, consolidation of inherited wealth, etc. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/commercial/
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This was the "largest state-sponsored pay-out in British history before the banking crisis in 2008." http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zw8dq6f
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To phase out the system of chattel slavery their colonies the British State paid their slave-owners £17 billion in compensation (1834)
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Liam Hogan Retweeted
I wrote about an Irish student who had an ill-fated night on the lash in 1930s Moscow for
@pubsandpubshttps://twitter.com/pubsandpubs/status/718350223328874496 … -
This is just a drop of a very large ocean of hate that exists online. Has anyone made a list of white nationalist a/cs based in Ireland?
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These Nazis also push the "white genocide" delusion. One comments that "killing is the only answer left". Pls reportpic.twitter.com/FS3c1vdiR5
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According to this Neo-Nazi I am a "Jewish supremacist living in Ireland"pic.twitter.com/A4elwOoS7Q
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It's remarkable how the meme is almost normalised now. This was sent to
@bomani_jones earlier. Note the@Indians avipic.twitter.com/oZ1tKjg1q8
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Liam Hogan followed Annie, Dr Jennifer Orr ن, Rebecca Marchiel and 11 others
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@ailsa_rose109
Lecturer in 18thC Lit
@NCL_English. researching Romantic Dissent and working class print culture/pop song. new book: http://goo.gl/Bf8q7M All views personal.
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Liam Hogan Retweeted
As president, I would formally apologize for our country's deplorable practice of slavery.
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Liam Hogan Retweeted
#IrishSlaves quacks say historians who dispute myths have been bought by the British. Does that make them slaves or indentured historians?
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