McDowell Memo: Irish Slavery in the US and why Mainstream media has a bias
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Was there slavery
involving the Irish brought to America
We will see in this exchange why Mainstream Media is
called fake news. For instance we look at the plight of Irish and Scotch
immigrants. The idea of Irish slavery is not to diminish the plight of African
slaves . It is rather to bring to light the hard times Irish and Scottish
persons had when brought against there will to America. It also to show that
many ethnic cultures had one form of slavery or another. Lets look at what that
paragon of virtuous reporting SNOPES has to say
SNOPES :Were There Irish Slaves in America, Too?
Questionable sources maintain that the plight of
so-called "Irish slaves" in early America was worse than that of
African slaves. Historians beg to differ.
- Published 24 September 2016
Claim
Early
in America's history, white Irish slaves outnumbered black slaves and endured
worse treatment at the hands of their masters.
Rating
Mixture
What's
True
Like
impoverished people of other nationalities, many emigrated from Ireland to the
Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries as indentured servants; a smaller
number were forcibly banished into indentured servitude during the period of
the English Civil Wars; indentured servants often lived and worked under harsh
conditions and were sometimes treated cruelly.
What's
False
Unlike
institutionalized chattel slavery, indentured servitude was neither hereditary
nor lifelong; unlike black slaves, white indentured servants had legal rights;
unlike black slaves, indentured servants weren't considered property.
Lets
look at the facts , Irish and Scottish Irish ( Scotts taken as slaves from
Scotland to Ireland by Irish mercenaries sent to subdue freedom efforts in
Scotland) were forcibly moved to Ireland and then without a way to support
themselves they had to indenture themselves to survive. What this consisted is
the owner would provide supposedly shelter and food , in fact the instant the
person was indentured usually for 20 years or payment of all the expenses spent
by the owner and 4 or 5 times the original cost of obtaining the servant. Very
few were ever able to buy themselves out of this. Also, the contract could be
sold to any one and the servant would still have to meet each condition to get
out of the contract. In the late 1500's and 1600's , The vast majority of all
persons coming to the new world were these indentured servants from Scotland
and Ireland , who were scooped up and put on boats to go to the New World with
either their owner or the owner that had just bought their contract. The
English were in most cases the new owners and they treated the Irish or Scotts
would ultimate distain. Snopes said the africans were considered property and could
be bought and sold and that the it was done based on race or hereditary
components. But what is the real difference both could be bought and sold at
will, both lived totally dependent on the Master and although Blacks were a
lifelong experience , this also was true of the overwhelming majority of the
Scot Irish settlers. And it was targeted against people of what ethnic
composition. And an owner was allowed to use indentured servants he owned as
collateral for loans by the banks. So in reality this answer from SNOPES is not
100% true and presents a bias. If you research this you will see all sorts of
articles from even giants like the NY Times which say that the Scotch Irish
were not slaves. And they cite research from sites like SNOPES to validate there
claims. But Penn State University and West Virginia University have numerous
papers on the plight of the Scotch Irish immigrants that would be the majority
of the Appalachian society . To this day this society is by far the most poor
and under protected of any in the US.
So
again because the Scotch Irish tend to today vote Republican the media
minimizes there plight thereby rewriting their history. Fake News yes .
So
when we read things look for bias it will jump out at you.
Here
is an early History of the area that does not talk much about slavery or
indentured servitude ( done by a Collegiate group with need to stay a
political) but it explains a lot of the mentality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHOyYQ0Wm_I&list=PLXg2-OUW
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