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<blockquote data-quote="LightningCrash" data-source="post: 2643332" data-attributes="member: 4278"><p>I suggest you research the topic more. The first indentured servants in America came over within a decade of Jamestown and there was already legal protection for them (as they were citizens), and it wasn't slavery. Slavery in America was realized with laws passed in Massachusetts in 1641 and Virginia - 1661 . Prior to that time, Africans brought to America were indentured servants. Slavery in America was very different from Indentured Servitude. </p><p></p><p>For some reason in 2006 or so this push for "Irish slavery" really ramped up, and I spent some good money chasing this down. It seems to have started with a misappropriation of "slavery" in a book in 2001 and ended up in a self referential circlejerk of books released in 2004-2005, which were gobbled up by Irish nationalists, Stormfront-types, and some just plain ignorant folks. </p><p></p><p>The idea has been put down so many times, it's comical. Again, why I laugh at it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LightningCrash, post: 2643332, member: 4278"] I suggest you research the topic more. The first indentured servants in America came over within a decade of Jamestown and there was already legal protection for them (as they were citizens), and it wasn't slavery. Slavery in America was realized with laws passed in Massachusetts in 1641 and Virginia - 1661 . Prior to that time, Africans brought to America were indentured servants. Slavery in America was very different from Indentured Servitude. For some reason in 2006 or so this push for "Irish slavery" really ramped up, and I spent some good money chasing this down. It seems to have started with a misappropriation of "slavery" in a book in 2001 and ended up in a self referential circlejerk of books released in 2004-2005, which were gobbled up by Irish nationalists, Stormfront-types, and some just plain ignorant folks. The idea has been put down so many times, it's comical. Again, why I laugh at it. [/QUOTE]
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