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Librarian & Historian. Researching Slavery - Memory - Power. https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/  Support my work http://ko-fi.com/liamhogan 

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    Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

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    This gobshite has 2.1m followers. Feel like I’m trying to bail out a sinking ship with a teaspoon. https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1118560723523629057 …

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    • FamiliaRichart Dan McNally | Dómhnall Mac Con Uladh Kane Guthrie STOC Ruthy Alastair doesn't know Tall Harris James O’Brien WEST PHILLY SKEEN 🟥⬛🟩
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      2. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        Liam Hogan Retweeted Liam Hogan

        Ad nauseamhttps://twitter.com/limerick1914/status/1099195920237899776?s=21 …

        Liam Hogan added,

        Liam Hogan @Limerick1914
        A gentle reminder that Irish “history” has been weaponised by racists to deny justice for African Americans for nearly two centuries. It seems that many are willing to incinerate the integrity of our history in the name of white supremacy and anti-blackness.
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        3 replies 157 retweets 674 likes
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      3. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        Anyway, let's find out what happens when a far-right meme collides with history. 1. The co-opted image is a famous Lewis Hine photograph taken at a canning company at Port Royal, South Carolina in 1911. It shows (L-R) three child labourers, Josie (6), Bertha (6) and Sophie (10)

        1 reply 95 retweets 441 likes
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      4. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        2. In 1619 one hundred poor English children (not Irish) between 8 and 16 years of age were taken from the streets of London and sent to Virginia and sold into indentured servitude. This was a radical extension of the English Poor Law of 1601.

        1 reply 44 retweets 338 likes
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      5. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        3. The "first shipment of black slaves" to the American colonies did not arrive in 1619. According to the Slave Voyages database there were 1,301 slave trading voyages from 1514 to 1619, involving circa 500,000 African victims.

        6 replies 56 retweets 358 likes
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      6. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        4. The meme takes a quote from the Remonstrance of the Irish Chiefs to Pope John XXII (1317) three or four centuries out of context and converts it into an imaginary "Law". This Remonstrance sought to invert the slanderous justifications for the Cambro-Norman conquest of Ireland.

        1 reply 27 retweets 300 likes
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      7. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        5. "500,000 Irish Catholics" were not sold into slavery in the 1600s. This number is ten times the estimated total migration from Ireland to the West Indies for the entire 17th century, of which several thousand were forcibly transported by the Cromwellian regime in the 1650s.

        2 replies 43 retweets 351 likes
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      8. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        6. The number is so absurdly high it is about three times the total population of the British West Indies (c. 1700)

        2 replies 24 retweets 316 likes
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      9. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        7. Cost of "Irish slaves" vs. African slaves is a false dichotomy. Indentured servants cost less than slaves because their labour was sold for a number of years (c. 4-7) rather than a lifetime. And unlike slaves, their children were not the property of the slaveowner upon birth.

        3 replies 37 retweets 342 likes
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      10. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        8. The meme claims that "many more Irish were sold as slaves than Africans " from 1600 to 1699. In reality thousands of Irish people were sold as servants (most voluntarily) while c. 1,900,000 Africans were shipped to the colonies as slaves (always involuntarily)

        2 replies 50 retweets 336 likes
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      11. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        9. This incident where 132 "Irish slaves" were "dumped overboard to drown because ship's supplies were running low" is a disturbing co-option of the Zong Massacre (1781) when the crew murdered over 132 enslaved Africans to cash in on the insurance money during a stricken voyage.

        3 replies 45 retweets 342 likes
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      12. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        Sin a bhfuil

        4 replies 11 retweets 186 likes
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      13. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        Liam Hogan Retweeted Liam Hogan

        This is not really about history btw. That’s a distraction. It’s racists essentially digging up our ancestors bones and sharpening them into rhetorical weapons to use against black people.https://twitter.com/limerick1914/status/1062432425173749760?s=21 …

        Liam Hogan added,

        Liam Hogan @Limerick1914
        This is what underpins the far-right's endless whataboutery and tendency to equate slavery in different contexts across different millenia. The goal is to empty the history of the transatlantic slave trade of its unique racial element and thus remove its legacy as a determinant.
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        4 replies 144 retweets 609 likes
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      14. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        These various “Irish slaves” and “white slaves” memes project a pseudo-mythological narrative to provide (a)historical justification for racial prejudice. The memefication of “white slavery” is like catnip for racists because it is The Bell Curve in shorthand.

        6 replies 74 retweets 391 likes
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      15. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        I’ve been tracking the extremist groups and websites that have promoted this propaganda for the past decade. Here’s just a sample.pic.twitter.com/AtRpPt73hW

        11 replies 68 retweets 431 likes
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      16. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 17 Apr 2019

        P.S. Thanks for all the support and encouragement. I don’t say that enough.

        22 replies 17 retweets 660 likes
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      17. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 18 Apr 2019

        Liam Hogan Retweeted Hozier

        Best cavalry everhttps://twitter.com/Hozier/status/1118878236493086722 …

        Liam Hogan added,

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        Bullshit myth. I point anyone interested to the work of Irish historian @Limerick1914 who's done extensive work disproving this false narrative. https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/all-of-my-work-on-the-irish-slaves-meme-2015-16-4965e445802a … https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1118560723523629057 …
        8 replies 26 retweets 505 likes
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      18. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 12 May 2020

        The far-right embrace of the “Irish were the first slaves in America” mythology continues.pic.twitter.com/4PyxDXWgjF

        10 replies 49 retweets 169 likes
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      19. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 15 Jun 2020

        The next group to share this “Irish slaves” meme is the CCIFV (The Committee for the Commemoration of Irish Famine Victims). Last year they had an initiative launched by the President of Ireland.pic.twitter.com/fDOlkkeWEl

        6 replies 13 retweets 71 likes
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      20. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 16 Jun 2020

        I’ve never seen the @NMIreland implicated in the “cover up” before, so at least that’s original.

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      21. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 16 Jun 2020

        Update: Now deleted.

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      22. End of conversation

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