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If Queen Elizabeth I had lived in the 20th Century. she would have been viewed with the same horror as Hitler and Stalin. Her policy of Irish genocide was pursued with such evil zest it boggles the mind of modern men. But Elizabeth was only setting the stage for the even more savage program that was to follow her, directed specifically to exterminate the Irish. James II and Charles I continued Elizabeth’s campaign, but Cromwell almost perfected it. Few people in modern so-called “civilized history” can match the horrors of Cromwell in Ireland. It is amazing what one man can do to his fellow man under the banner that God sanctions his actions!
Source: http://www.kavanaghfamily.com/articles/2003/20030618jfc.htm

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They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.

Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.

None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books conveniently forgot.
Source: http://afgen.com/forgotten_slaves.html

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Slaves in Barbary could be black, brown or white, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish or Muslim. Contemporaries were too aware of the sort of people enslaved in North Africa to believe, as many do today, that slavery, whether in Barbary or the Americas, was a matter of race. In the 1600s, no one's racial background or religion automatically destined him or her for enslavement. Preachers in churches from Sicily to Boston spoke of the similar fates of black slaves on American plantations and white slaves in corsair galleys; early abolitionists used Barbary slavery as a way to attack the universal degradation of slavery in all its forms.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_slaves_05.shtml

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It is estimated that somewhere between 30,000 and 80,000 Irish were shipped from Ireland.
Source: http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0058.htm

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In 1649 Oliver Cromwell and his 20,000-man army invaded Ireland. They killed the entire garrison of Drogheda (Ireland) and slaughtered all the townspeople. Afterwards, Cromwell said, "I do not think 30 of their whole number escaped with their lives. Those that did are in safe custody in the Barbados."

Under Cromwell's policy, known as "To Hell or Connaught," Irish landowners were driven off millions of acres of fertile land. Those found east of the river Shannon after May 1, 1654, faced the death penalty or slavery in the West Indies. Cromwell rewarded his soldiers and loyal Scottish Presbyterians by "planting" them on large estates. The British set up similar "plantations" in Barbados, St. Kitts and Trinidad.

In Black Folk Then and Now, Du Bois concurs: "Even young Irish peasants were hunted down as men hunt down game, and were forcibly put aboard ship, and sold to plantations in Barbados."
https://www.indymedia.ie/article/78714?&condense_comments=false#comment1...

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An unfortunate fact is that Britain did more than any other nation to end the international slave trade around the world in the 19th century (sits uncomfortably with many a barstool republican!). Often with the help of the Royal Navy, such as the closure of the death camp-like Islamic slave centre of Zanzibar. Britain abolished slavery in 1833, Russia freed the serfs in 1861, Netherlands in 1863, the US in 1863 and by civil war, Brazil in 1888. Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in ** 1962 **. General Gordon in the 1870s did make great efforts to eliminate the slave trade in Sudan. But as an indepent country the Khartoum government can allow it to prosper again.
Source: https://www.indymedia.ie/article/78714?&condense_comments=false#comment1...

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