that the majority of sources
agree that Indentured Servitude
is actually slavery BY DEFINITION.
Bonded labor is designed to exploit workers. The cyclical process begins with a debt, whether acquired or inherited, that cannot be paid immediately. Then, while the worker labors to repay the debt, the employer continues to add on additional expenses. For instance, a laborer may begin with an initial debt of $200. While working and unable to leave, this worker needs a shelter, food and water. The employer tacks on $25 per day to the debt to cover those expenses. Consequently, the employee only grows his debt while continuing to labor for his debtor, and repayment is impossible.
“ Oftentimes this debt is passed down from generation to generation, making it eerily similar to chattel slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries.“
It’s seen throughout the world when employers force the children of employees to labor in the same situation as their parents in order to help pay off their parents’ debt or when parents or family members pass away and employers require another body to fill the lost role – all under the pretense of a debt owed.
What the Irish Were NOT Allowed To Do By English LAW:
Speak, teach, or read Gaelic (their native language) in order to eradicate it as a language completely
Seek or enter any profession at all
Hold any form of political office, at any level of government
Own horses or livestock; they were only allowed to raise them for English masters
Own guns or other weapons
Engage in any form of commerce, meaning they’re not allowed to buy or sell anything
Eat almost any food they raised or grew with exception to potatoes ; and a large portion of the food they grew was directly used to feed black slaves overseas in the West Indies, even when the Irish themselves were starving.
What The Irish WERE Allowed To Do, According To English Law:
Be literal land slaves to English Protestants that worked the land for the profit of English Protestant masters, at their direct mercy with no choice in the matter.
That’s it. That’s the entire list.
The English literally put people in charge of lessening the suffering of the Potato Famine who openly mocked the Irish and declared the “Famine” the “Will of God Sent Down To Kill All The Irish” and basically told them to fuck off and die while it was straight up illegal for Irish to eat other food besides potatoes even though there was plenty of other food.
“The judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much mitigated. The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people (the Irish).”
– Charles E. Trevelyan, British Famine Relief Civil Servant
The main source of the “Irish were never slaves” debunk is a man named Liam Hogan, who not only doesn’t actually know his Irish history despite supposedly being an “expert” since he apparently thinks the “only” thing Irish weren’t allowed to do was own land and that was it?
But openly mocks Irish suffrage and outright denies a lot of what happened.
“IF slavery existed in Ireland, it ought to put down, and the generous in the land ought to rise and scatter its fragments to the winds,” Hogan asserted, which was followed by loud cheers. “But there was nothing like American slavery on the soil on which I now stand. Negro slavery consisted not in taking away a man’s property, but in making property of him.”
Sure Hogan, except… there was something almost exactly like American Slavery in Ireland.
And a lot of that shitty treatment carried over too when they threw the Irish out. There were a lot of cases where they outright used Irish “Indentured Servants” for jobs they considered too dangerous to waste “valuable black slaves” on.
Let’s be clear: Irish immigrants and African slaves were both treated appallingly in the United States. There is even evidence that, at times, immigrants were hired to do jobs considered too dangerous for slaves. After all, slaves would cost quite a bit of money if they died while productive, while immigrants (see: Indentured Servants) were essentially expendable.
Anyway I already wrote a whole ass post on this before so y’all can go educate yourselves there. I’m tired of repeating myself.
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