I'd read that the "Irish Need Not Apply" signs may have been a popular myth tho widespread discrimination was clearly the case.
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Actually, there are many newspaper photos in New England showing the signs in the windows of shops and factories.
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So basically if you got forced into indentured servitude without an expiration date it's not slavery because? Muh narrative?
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By 1960s US had Irish Catholic President while people killed trying to get black voter rights. Big difference. 3/
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History does in fact show Irish were Slaves in addition to Indebted servants. Maurice Lenihan 1866 History of Limerick pg 668 669
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My grandfather, William James Bell, & his brothers came from Belfast, Ireland to America in the early 1900s as indentured servantspic.twitter.com/RUEDXdMNNr
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@liamstack taken against your will and forced to work off forced transport=7 years a slaveThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Slavery? It was only involuntary servitude, gah! They're like a whole word apart in the 13th amendment.
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Gangs of New York..... A very historically correct film.
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Slavery is not something to brag about or one-up-manship. Blacks were treated horribly (to some degree still are), Irish Slaves too
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At some point anyone who was not one of the chosen few was treated as less than human and it happened in almost every nation.
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And still does in some.
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They most certainly were taken- study the Barbary slavers. Many millions of Europeans were taken slave. This really is a new low.
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The answer is simple. Almost all male slaves taken by the muslim slavers were castrated. Trying to hide that history is despicable.
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7 years a slave is 7 years a slave Slavery is an overused definition of servitude, Evil is ALWAYS EVIL & SLAVERY is still alive:(
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Daniel Defo in 1700's referred to the indentured Irish "more properly called Slaves". Also recent Book 'White Cargo'
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