Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British West Indies (particularly Barbados, …

2020年6月18日 · Claims that Irish people were enslaved in British North America are a longstanding myth and online meme sometimes associated with neo-Confederates and white …

Irish immigrants to the Caribbean colonies were not slaves – they were a type of worker known as indentured servants. The Irish Slaves Myth does not seek to right an historical wrong against …

2013年9月23日 · It has been estimated that over 533,000 indentured servants came to colonial America between 1630 and the beginning of the American Revolution in the 1770s. [1] They …

During the 16th through the 18th centuries, about 320,000 indentured servants, primarily from England but also from Scotland, Ireland, and elsewhere, crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the …

In the last few years, a pseudo-historical claim has gone viral which suggests that Irish people who travelled to North America as indentured servants were slaves in the same way as …

In the mid-eighteenth century, severe agricultural and financial crises forced thousands to leave Ireland for British North America. A great number of them arrived in the Middle Atlantic …

2017年3月17日 · The Irish slave narrative is based on the misinterpretation of the history of indentured servitude, which is how many poor Europeans migrated to North America and the …

Historians of seventeenth-century English America have iden-tified and explained patterns of social conflict and protest that contributed to the instability of settler communities. Such …