Slavery » MYTH: The Irish Were Slaves

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• AP FACT CHECK: Irish

  By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press.

• Debunked: Irish people were not the first slaves to arrive in the American colonies

  Slave trading from Africa to the Americas began around 100 years before 1619, and indentured servitude is not the same as chattel slavery.

• Debunking a Myth: The Irish Were Not Slaves, Too

  By Liam Stack for the New York Times.

• Debunking the imagery of the “Irish slaves” meme

  By Liam Hogan, Librarian & Historian at the Limerick City Library.

• Does This Photograph Show Irish Slaves in the United States? (Snopes)

  A disturbing photo of mining conditions, likely from Belgium in the early 20th century, has often been misrepresented to fit various political narratives.

• Fact check: ‘Irish slaves’ meme repeats discredited article (Reuters)

  A lengthy post relating to Irish people and slavery has been widely reposted and shared on Facebook. The text is from a widely discredited 2008 article.

• Free us from myth of US Irish slavery

  By Donald Clarke for The Irish Times.

• How the Myth of the "Irish slaves" Became a Favorite Meme of Racists Online

  By Alex Amend for The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

• Irish slaves myth - Wikipedia

• Myth Busted: Scholars Fire Back Against Memes Pushing Narrative of Irish Slaves in the Americas

  By Ricky Riley.

• No, The Irish Were Not Slaves Too

  Historian Liam Hogan has spent the last six years debunking the Irish slave myth.

• Open letter to Irish Central, Irish Examiner and Scientific American about their

  Signed by 82 Irish scholars and writers.

• openDemocracy - ‘Irish slaves’: the convenient myth

  By Liam Hogan, Research Librarian, Limerick City Library.

• Slate - Slavery myths: Seven lies, half-truths, and irrelevancies people trot out about slavery—debunked

• The curious origins of the ‘Irish slaves’ myth

  By Natasha Varner for Public Radio International.

• The Myth of “Irish Slaves” in the Colonies

  By Liam Hogan.

• The unfree Irish in the Caribbean were indentured servants, not slaves

  By Liam Hogan, Laura McAtackney, and Matthew Connor Reilly.

• Two years of the ‘Irish slaves’ myth: racism, reductionism and the tradition of diminishing the transatlantic slave trade

  By Liam Hogan, Limerick City Library.

• USA Today - Fact check: The Irish were indentured servants, not slaves

• Were the Irish Slaves in America, Too? - Snopes