TRUTH about the Irish - First slaves brought to the Americas - Forgotten History 

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The so called famine was a genocide. The very first truthful account was written by Chris Fogarty,; The perfect holocaust and who kept it perfect.

hahaah, slaves!!!

I wonder if we could be related? My Irish grandma and grandpa were also in Iowa. I don't know much of our history.

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Please do some research and due diligence

No, if you listen to what he said than you would know that that contract was a sham im most cases. The whites who had contracts, would easily have their contracts resold by the holder. White people were enslaving the Irish and sending them to work in Jamica and the americus long before the African was enslaved by the same system.

​@@themack74 Don't be so ignorant lol

So, when the English emptied their jails of rapists, murders, theives and the menatlly ill and sent them to labor in the american colonies, you're saying they were all on contracts????

My gradmother came to the United States in 1912 as a steerage passanger from Ireland. She was fifteen and her parents did not come with her. I think the parents had died, or at least the father had and there were a number of children. An older brother, maybe two of them, were probably already in the United States. From what my father told me, he was told some of the stories about how the English teated the Irish, and it wasn't good. I took a college plant pathology class. The teacher taught about the Irish famine and how the English would set up places the Irish could go to get a bowl of some sort of food ten miles out of town, and say if the Irish wanted to eat they could walk to get the food. Of course, the Irish were starving to death, weak and dieing. Apparently the English could have helped the Irish but chose not to. Plus, the Irish were already being terribly opressed by the English and survived by eating potatoes. No potatoes, no food. I also believe the information on this video. People make rediculous comments. They don't have the ability to see past their own situation and the world as it is today where they live. I saw an American documentary about the history of the Irish in America. The documentary indicated that southern slave owners sent the free Irish to work in the swampy areas where people caught malaria. Because the Irish had no monetary value to the slave owner, and the slave people did. I was reading through historical Maine, United States court records. I read a case of a man who was an indentured servant. I don't know if the person was Irish. He had a contract to be indentured for ten years. After the ten years the person he worked for was suposed to give him ten acres of land and one change of clothing. The employer refused to honor the contract. I think the case was before the revolutionary war, but not very long before. I wasn't looking through the records for history of indentured survants. I just happened upon the case and read it. How horrible. Working for someone for ten years and then not getting paid, and probably having no place to live and no money. Sometimes the indentured survants were not allowed to leave the farms. That is almost slavery, except the person had the expectation for a future of freedom, and perhaps they were not as abused as a black slaves were. They also had a chance if they ran away; becasue they could not be identified by the color of their skin. I don't know what the punishment was if an indentured servant ran away. Even today in the United States. Some of the states have the federal minimum wage, which is very low. How can anyone live on that little money, and how can anyone actually think it is o.k. to own a business and hire an employee for such a low wage. Especially, those big chains that are owned by stockholders and the very rich. Those are the same people who would have slaves if it was legal.

Irish Confederate Wars is how your ancestors ending up i take it

Most Irish are fair skinned. How did they work out in that hot tropical sun?

@@josephinetracy1485 ive found a youtube video that debunk the over hyped science facts that whites cant stand under the sun, it is turned out a propaganda from jews to make white people hate themself and make blacks feel good about themself as jewish guardian dogs as long as whites have melanin, they can live under the sun but maybe not to much well i mean do you think black people in africa mostly live in sahar desert or that part of africa that full of forest?

​ @josephinetracy1485 Well ... those "Irish slaves" were actually lawfully convicted criminals that had to be boarded onto penal transportation ships headed for that tropical sun; where they worked alongside white european indentured servants. However, that was simply the criminal justice system in the 16th and 17th century. So it doesn't really matter how they did. They soon had to be moved to the New World colonies anyways because they made both poorly motivated labourers and had a tendency for betrayal during armed conflicts with the French. The way these people are trying to equate irish prisoners and volunteer contract labourers -- to *_actual slaves_* -- is just shameful smh

Agreed. Thanks for the comment

Yes indeed.

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Thank you for the video. It was interesting to watch.

@@icevariable9600 Suffering is not exclusive to a certain race of people.

Very true. I am of Slavic heritage and it annoyed me when I was a kid and discovered that the word "slave" was derived from the word used to describe captive Slavs. It isn't so much a big deal as much of a feeling of twisting of the knife.

Thanks for watching.

By any chance was the last name Chadwick

This sounds so much like my grandma same thing with her that I know but people has been lyiang to me her last name was Chadwick and I looked at the back of the the history of Maude Chadwick yes we are related to Duncans they called her Maud Grandma married my Grandpa Moses l e t t she was sixteen when she married and he was some few years good years older than her she lived with her aunt and like a general store I'd like to know more about this

And yes there is the long black thick hair brown eyes and high cheekbones exactly like an Indian but for some reason my Grandpa Moses can't stand anybody a dark-skinned and I always had a feeling that Grandma was Cheyenne Indian with Chadwick but nobody wanted to talk about it would get mad

You're very right.

EXACTLY 🇮🇪 AND THAT IS WHY WE HAVE PRIDE... UNLIKE THE OTHER SLAVES AROUND THE WORLD THROUGHOUT TIME...WE DON'T COMPLAIN..WE BUST OUR ARSES AND REBUILD . THIS IS WHY THE ENTIRE WORLD LIGHTS UP IN GREEN ON ST. PADDY'S DAY 💚☘️🇮🇪 NOT PATTY NOT 🍀

@@libramagyk@nothanks5520 how’s discussing American history “complaining”? If you’re referring to black people, slavery and the ensuing civil rights movement only ended a few generations back. On the other hand Irish slavery has nothing to do with American history. It was over and done with prior to this nation ever existing. There are no monuments and holidays around today of the people that enslaved your ancestors.

They were sold by the Irish. Dublin had the largest slave trading market in Europe. They also ravaged the Welsh and English coasts .. hence the English hostility to begin with ! .. I’m Irish but I’m not a fantasist

@@libramagykstop ignoring the Irish crimes of slavery too

@@mgreen9092the point is that slavery was universal. And, let's not forget that the British were the first country to outlaw slavery, both the US and Britain had warships patrolling Africa looking for Slavers. Many whites in the US gave their lives to end slavery in the US, and many had their heads bashed in in the 1950's and 60's. More importantly, slavery is alive and well today, so wonderin' why that's forgotten.

Inhumane Treatment - poor orphaned girl. These people had no soul -- or heart..

Well said. Thanks for watching.

I had a fight with my union leader. I told her my people were enslaved. She said indentured servitude was different. Went on to the internet and showed her that many of us was forced into indentured servitude by gun point or tricked into the situation. She changed her tune, and apologize. I told her she didn't need to, because it's not her fault, but those who actually distort history do. People forget, the First Africans were not brought in as slaves, but rather indentured servitude. Latter their rights were taken away, until they reach the slave status. This has happened repeatedly.

True, but this is specifically about Irish slavery, and needs to be told. The picture of the Vikings shows Christian Irish being enslaved. The Vikings were not, and sold Irish and Scottish peoples to Muslim slave markets in North Africa. This only stopped when stopped once the Vikings were Christianised. God bless from a cold, bright Scotland.

Now if only Hollywood would make this into a movie. Except they probably wouldn't bother to be authentic.

@@janetdesmith8125 Hollywood will never bother to tell this truth. They're too wedded, as are their thought leaders and political donor class, to the 'white privilege' narrative. This truth undercuts that, hurting their end of the political spectrum's hold on power. In short, there's not enough money in it for them to complicate the message (i.e., risk their machine).

You are correct, but the woke revisionists and reparationists want to kill anything that takes away from their delusion that they are owed something for which they never endured personally. Thanks for watching.

thats BS they kept away from the blacks they had too because they were afraid remember they just left ireland no black people so they were scared and stayed by themseles they were kind but scared because the slave owners beat the black peopleso much the Bp took it out really unknowingly because they just werent sure which white people were for or agaist them. neway mass killings etc by black on irish happens on all island there. 76,000 killed in 2 months. they got set free bcause a king in euope got scared bcause their numbers were at the endangerd level..like 45,000 irish worldwide by 1760 so. damn the irish need to get over that stuff and lick butthole more. no reperations either!

It is strange that people don't realize slavery of pigmented people began at the hands of other pigmented people. Neighboring villages looking for brides

​@@danarzechula3769Many do realize yet keep that information buried. Some are called race-hustlers. Big money in "forever grievance"

It's monsetratt your are thinkin of

Where in the Finger Lakes? This information is fascinating!

​@@user-gq7xj4bc6kUpstate New York near Ithaca.

It sounds a bit strange to hear that a slave "loved it,". Are you sure about that?

comprehensive reading is not your best obviously. she was sold and then freed and then employed by the same people. even if she was not freed, there is a huge difference when treated with respect, getting some sort of pay and generally feeling part of it all. @@Boo675jhggg

No one was forced into indentured servitude. Those who sought to travel to the 13 colonies but couldn’t afford the fare had the choice to agree to work for someone who would pay their fare for them. They would work for a year or two, then leave with some money and something they could use to start their new life. The only ones with longer periods of servitude were prisoners who were sent to Virginia to serve their prison sentences working. These were peoples lives not a fantasy story to be used

Yes

Agreed. Thanks for watching.

It was wrong and the fact that it still impacts Massive Americans and Black people today.

@@tdm3301 Yes slavery has affected EVERYONE in one way or another and it was wrong regardless of COLOR!! Enough said!

Somewhere in the Bible I've read that God spoke about slavery. That there would be slaves but he also explained how these slaves should be treated and how it was explained slaves were to be treated well but that may have been for those times thousands of yrs ago. It's been found that the slaves that lived during those times in Egypt were treated way better than what has been taught today.

the difference is that the Irish didn't enslave their own kind

Amazing history. Thanks for watching.

Where was he brought, somewhere in the south I’m assuming due to your comment?

Do not know where he was brought to, but he died in Arkansas at the age of 82. He was walking to the elementary school fell in the creek and that’s where the children found him that morning. A town named sweet water.

He sounds like a great man. Love from Dublin Ireland.

Beautiful story. Thanks 😊

Orphan status was not necessary to make children likely targets.

Truth! That's how part of my family ended up in Australia, not convicted convicts, just poor and vulnerable. I'm also descended from the Vikings (Danish) who enslaved other Irish ancestors.

That origin story has been disproven long ago. The origins of the term kidnap were referring to the stealing of young goats, whose skin was extremely valuable for the manufacture of fine leather goods, gloves etc

@@mmoretti that's a bunch of nonsense.

@mmoretti term "kidnapping" originated in the late 17th century and comes from the words "kid" and "nap". "Kid" is a slang term for "child" and "nap" is an obsolete slang term for "thief" that comes from the verb "to steal". The original meaning of "kidnap" was "to steal children to provide servants to the American colonies".

THE IRISH WERE NOT SLAVES...THEY WERE INDENTURED SERVANTS, THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE🥸😎

😎🥸🙂The Irish were NEVER slaves...the Irish were indentured servants for a little while and indentured servitude is just TEMPORARY 🙂😎 The Irish were not bred with anyone either Harper lady

​@@giffysstiffy8874giffytuckyou're a troll or a bot. Just commenting the same thing everywhere.

@@mostdavestdave69 LMAO...YOURE TRIGGERED BY THE TRUTH!!!🤣🤣🤮🤮🖕🖕 You hate the fact that Irish were not slaves!!!🤣🤣🤣🖕🖕

I heard this but never saw anything about it not even in school crazy we all taught about African slavery??? Sad but interesting

Perhaps. Thanks for watching.

Thanks for posting

My family is Irish/Cherokee and for both peoples our family loyalties and tribal ties are strong...as are our oral tradition and our VERY long memories. I am certain it affects our closeness and explains how tightly we close ranks in times of trouble.

@@teslagirl1 No doubt thanks for posting

There’s still 6 counties under British government Northern Ireland Kinda makes it hard to forget when they shove it in your face

I'm sorry this is happening to Ireland. God bless.

If you were racist then you wouldn't be having these problems. Irish nationalism is the antithesis to your replacement. But it's better to not be racist. It will continue to get worse, but hey at least your not racist amiright?

I an afraid to agree with you in case i am branded a racist.I am 52 and from Dublin.I voted NO to the Lisbon treaty and No the second time.The EU has nothing to do with "Free trade" It is a dictatorship.!You are correct it is only a matter of time before we loose our neutrality and become part of NATO because the people that i did not elect are the most corrupt in the world.Welcome to the new FF/FG.

Are these Muslims that your politicians are welcoming to Ireland?

Very well observed and stated

Thanks for watching.

I have one remaining relative who was a serf. He told me the difference between a serf and a slave. A serf can not be sold with out the land. They have no value. When food is short, the owner don't care and let them starve. That is why in the 1800s 100 million serfs starved in Eastern Europe and Asia and they mostly went communist.

Very right, I have been told the same thing. The Knights of Columbus was formed to help the widowed Irish families because the Irish often had very dangerous and often fatal jobs. KofC eventually became a Catholic Men's insurance company and fraternity to manage the need for money that far exceeded the ability of Father McGivney to collect a few dollars from individual men to help the families whose Husband or Father had died.

I'm from Western Kentucky , Mayfield yeah are State is different

As we hear from Longshanks in Braveheart...

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One difference is, that Irish children could not be taken from their family and sold

​@@urbandiscountdid you not hear the part where Irish teenagers were taken from their parents and sold?

@@urbandiscountYeah, That’s not true, not just tèénś, even their chiłdren were sold.

So many people say Irish Słavery was a myth but that’s BS! Many were førced, sent away from their lands, beat3n, forced to work, their wømen rap3d, their chīldren sold and often they were kílled or kept for lífe This is in fact słavery. “In theory, the person is only selling his or her labor. In practice, however, indentured servants were basically slaves and the courts enforced the laws that made it so. The treatment of the servant was harsh and often brutal. In fact, the Virginia Colony prescribed “bodily punishment for not heeding the commands of the master.” (Ballagh, 45) Half the servants died in the first two years. As a result of this type of treatment, runaways were frequent. The courts realized this was a problem and started to demand that everyone have identification and travel papers. (A.E. Smith 264-270).” - Deanna Barker, Frontier Resources That’s half in just two years, while other sources claim it was half in total or less around 1/3. Yet, other sources say it was 60% that díed (or were kílled). “Only about 40 percent of indentured servants lived to complete the terms of their contracts. Female servants were often the subject of harassment from their masters. A woman who became pregnant while a servant often had years tacked on to the end of her service time.” - UShistory(dot)org 5b. Indentured Servants By “harassment”, they mean often they were rap3d.

Most blk Americans don't truly know the history of poor whts and our history has been purposely erased ! You can even Google that " how poor wht history has been erased" the results will shock you

last free people of europe or were.

@@Tiochfaidh they will find out about that though wont they in a way they already are. i cant speak on your politics really from across an ocean but i love the irish and i love the fact my ancestors came from such an amazing place to live here. i hope you take youre country back without a blow thrown and a bunch of tears on these delusional authoritarians faces.

True

Africa are the worst perpetrators of slavery ever!

It would be a safe bet that every family has a slave in thier history at some point. Slavery is one of the oldest institutions in the world and started before people traveled wide enough to encounter other skin tones and racism entered the picture. Slavery was less racist than it was classist for most history and in most civilizations.

Nearly every major civilization utilized slavery at some point in its history, the main difference with the Transatlantic Slave Trade was the sheer scale of it. The Ottoman Slave Trade quite possibly rivaled it though and lasted even longer.

It definitely would help race relations, if people understood that both white, and people of other races were enslaved. Look up the history of native populations, and how the chines build railroad and under what conditions. Black people by no means were the only ones who suffered greatly and unjustly.

Glad you enjoyed it

The Irish were never slaves in the Americas.

Have BABIES!!!

@@SamanthaP48 name one Irish slave and when they were emancipated.

​@@stikupartist3698 Did you listen to the presentation to understand the meanings of indentured servants vs slaves?

How terribly sad.

My maternal grandmother and her sister were captured and sold as indentured servants to serve in America. My grandmother was 19, and her sister was 20. They were Black Irish. They had black hair, dark skin, hazel eyes. My grandmother worked for a wealthy family involved in the coal mines and steel mills in Pennsylvania. Her sister was sent to work for a wealthy banking family in NYC. They were dating brothers who worked in the coal mines in Ireland. My grandfather and his brother moved to America and helped to purchase the freedom of my grandmother and her sister. My grandmother and her sister always spoke kindly of the Native American people. They commented that the Irish that were rejected in America for various reasons were put on the reservations because the Black Irish looked like Native Americans. My grandfather worked in the coals mines dying at the age of 40 from a variety of health complications, financial challenges , having 10 children, leaving my grandmother a widow raising a family alone. His brother worked his way up in the banking industry in NYC and lived a long life

Our “supposed history books” were written to cover up the ugly truths of course. I have many different nationalities in me and I am so grateful that politicians can’t hid behind those foolish lies any more .

@@teresastaalcowley8521 if they looked like the Native Americans, they were not really black, but more like people with a background from the Indies, I suppose.

@joni3503 Thank you, that makes sense. Interesting, in addition, my late husband was Filipino, Spanish, and originally from Northern Israel. My children are now adults, and they have been asked why their mom is white and they are not. They have been asked if they are Native American and Mexican. God's reasoning of genetics and DNA influenced by geographic locations adapts to our bodies needs.

You are expressing logic, that is a dangerous thing in the world of woke, and thanks for watching.

In 1860 in Louisiana, around 30% of the slave owners were people of african descent or african.

No sir, being WOKE is only dangerous to those who are trying to hide the truth.

And the many signs that stated No Work for Irish. Or Rooms either. They were lower than second class.

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL The Irish were paid to work. This doesn't make sense They didn't chain Irish people together or put Irish on Reservations and Boarding Schools. -COMANCHE NATION

Thanks for sharing!

I found out from the census records.

white slaves inclusing other whites than irish is not even in academic hack and viased histoy books / classes it is pathetic. many books are written on it as yu know, but too many do not know and no one in mainstream dare mention it one book is white gold by giles milton

@queenbee my Ancestor could read and Write. So he recorded his and passed it down through our cousin. He is a professional Genealogist and he found his slave record in Maryland Court records.

This isn't about my white skin. See the white man with a womb? I didn't come from him. I came from my Mama's body and spirit my Dada created in. Not woMAN and they hate us for it.

I'm sure the Irish raiders on Britain after the Romans left did not leave empty handed.

Mudd

Are you related to the Dr. Mudd who set John Wilkes Booth's broken leg?

Amazing family history

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL You forgot the first 100 indentured servants to america were 100 english children and there was more indentured english servants than irish in america. Doesnt fit your narrative though

The Irish where Known as the Red Legs by the Other Black Slaves as They where not used to such a Hot Climate after Wet and Rainy Ireland , and Thanks for This often overlooked History .

The Irish were sent to Barbados to harvest sugarcane ! There's an entire Irish/Black community in Barbados

@@JimOne-pz5hj Source? I'm guessing you can't provide one.

Thanks for watching.

Best of luck with that Claire, maybe your doubters just don't want to accept it.

You can't educate people who don't want to learn, but you should never stop trying.

A VERY big “if”!

That's only because people only tell half a story much like this video has. He forgot to mention that the first 100 indentured servents were English. He forgot to mention that there were more English and British indentured servents than Irish. He forgot to mention that there were also Irish slave owners. When you point these things out, learning history suddenly becomes unimportant to the people preaching that learning history is important.

Thanks for sharing and for watching!

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Be blessed

There is a difference between 'Irish' and ' scotch irish'... The former were Irish Catholics who largely arrived in the mid 1800,s. , whereas the ' scotch Irish' were Presbyterians from Ulster, who fled English persecution in the 1600/1700,s and were a major influence in the war of independence , and the westward trek. They were the " first to start , and the last to quit" , they produced many u s presidents , Washington once said , "if defeated everywhere else, I will make my last stand for Liberty among the scotch Irish of my native Virginia".....

@@barneymagee3285 If it was between 1600- 1700 then surely if they were persecuted during this time. Then this would of been the reign of the Stuart Dynasty. Obviously this being the case Barney , it would of been British persecution rather than English. Religious persecution was endemic throughout Europe during this period, not just the geographical area of the British Isles.

It was English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish that suffered this fate.

Teach this story for your fellows,dont let your nation feel guilty. And,never leave your country to the 3rld world.

They weren't treated like the blacks. There were NEVER Irish slaves in the US. If they were placed naked on an auction block, sold and breed like live stock for 246 plus years of chattel slavery, then freed with nothing but the one outfit of rags on their backs, YES they were slaves. But that is not what happened to them. They provided service for two to six years, while never being shackled or beaten, and upon completion, they were given land for their service. You sir are trying to rewrite history. White folks are infamous for rewriting history. It's not going to work this time.

Yes, be proud of your heritage. Everyone should be proud of their heritage, regardless of the colour of their skin. NO-ONE should be shamed because of the colour of their skin, black, white, whatever. Anyone who tries to strip away your history, tries to play down the terrible and tragic things that happened to your ancestors as well, is part of the problems with the world today. We cannot create any resemblance of "equality", a true equality, by tipping the scales in the entirely opposite direction. Which is sadly what has happened these days.

Happened to all poor Europeans they weren't slaves tho

BS

​@@Votebritishof course the guy whose name is vote British wants to defame the Irish as liars. Makes you look better.

We Irish have endured so much but look at us today for we have climbed the highest ladder. Their was never a famine in Ireland total BS. Why can’t the historians admit to this. The English tried to commit Genocide to the IRISH by stopping imports and thus starving the Irish out of their land making them weak. Their was no famine for their was enough of fish in the sea to feed the fish 100 times over. We just didnt live on potatoes. Lol. Erin go Bragh.❤❤❤❤❤🇮🇪☘️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

There were signs in England no more than fifty or sixty years ago still saying ; " No Irish need apply". These same signs also existed in the U.S. until the earlier part of the past century.

@@paulhomsy2751 I know as my parents lived in London and they told me . Both of my sisters weee born in London . I was born in Ireland 🇮🇪 but grew up in California, 🇺🇸

People have been made into slaves from the beginning of time. Sadly

"Redlegs" were Irish slaves (50,000)sent to Barbados by Cromwell. Thousands of Irish were sent as indentured servants to the Carribean.

If the WEF gets their way, we'll all be back in servitude to the wealthy landowners

And what do you think about poor Mexicans crossing the Rio Grande wiith no documents?

@therealrobertbirchall There was an article a few years ago that said they find about 250 dead bodies crossing the desert into the USA each year. I suppose many die crossing the Rio Grande, too. It would be safer for everyone if immigrants came in legally. We should remember that it was less than 200 years ago that much of the southwestern USA and Florida belonged to Spain. Mexico got its independence after we did.

God our One and Only is of all good love and truth. Anyone who acts opposite does not know our True God. They know the opposite or the evil one. God bless ✝️

"Non confirming" means Catholic!!!

@@tarynray6362 Tell that to Martin Luther's followers

Many do not understand what non-conforming means, and it’s connect to the forced conversions of xtianity or death…. Xtians, Catholics, etc…. I’m Yisrael Chai, and sadly today we see history trying to repeat itself and xtians being xtians and applauded again, which will easily lead to these events again if we do not educate the indoctrinated ignorant masses.

@@tarynray6362Isaiah 43:10,11,15… ✡️ I understand you do not understand the history that your xtian ancestors and the church were behind the slavery, against anyone who did not convert to xtianity. Nice idol man there…. See Luke 19:27, Psalms 146:3, xtianity is the cult behind slavery and worse.

Many thanks!

Thanks very much

Given the current developments in some states like florida, African Americans may soon have to rely on videos such as these to remind their children of how they came to America and why. When a nation deliberately erases or misrepresents its history it makes a clear statement that given a chance it would repeat its errors.

@@aliveandhearty7321 Is that what Rachel Maddow told you?

@@aliveandhearty7321 there is definitely not any shortage of African American history at any school’s curriculum in todays age. But for sure history such in this video is hard to come by anymore at schools.

Good story, that meant he was a slave.

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Yes it does.

​@FORGOTTEN HISTORY if he worked as a child it relatively meant he was pretty much a child slave.

​@FORGOTTEN HISTORY if he worked as a child it relatively meant he was pretty much a child slave.

​@FORGOTTEN HISTORY if he worked as a child it relatively meant he was pretty much a child slave.

Thank you kindly

Thanks for watching

If they couldn't be sold, they were not slaves

@@SunofYork That is an Ignorant Analogy, Akin to Moving the Goal Post, If They We're Forced to Work Against Their Will, and Had Their Lives Controlled Completely By Someone Else, They Were Slaves, Stop with The Sugar Coating.

@@perrysanders8433 Rubbish. I was forced to work against my will for 40 years coz the Government would not give me all the money I needed for cars/houses etc. Chattel slavery where one can be bought and sold is miles way from your harsh job rot

That practice continued in Australia well into the 70s, with children from Britain shipped over with promises made to their poor mothers that they would go to a great life. What did happen, was that a good deal of the boys were serially abused sexually by the Bernardo Brothers priests. We seem highly skilled at manufacturing human misery, given half an opportunity as a species? And an indentured servant is a slave, with all the right and privileges of a slave.

You're most welcome

too hell or barbados is good book on irish slavery

They were also deeply discriminated against as well, in the US and England. A lot of groups were that you don't suspect would be in modern times. You're right, it's greed then and still is. Those with power and money by far will continue to try keep their position by holding others down. They're doing to us now by using social media to keep large groups of people fighting among each other to distract from the horrible things they're doing.

Thank you kindly

My Irish neighbor said I'm his against my will.

With regards “cheaper” than black slaves - this is true. I read about a northern journalist who was visiting the south and was viewing cargo operations on the Mississippi River. He saw black slaves throwing bales of cotton into the hold of a ship. He mentioned to a supervisor that it must be terribly dangerous for those working in the hold and was told, “that’s all right, they’re only Paddies and they’re worth much less than the black slaves”!!!

They were less expensive because it was so easy for them to escape and pass themselves off as a free person, or raise their status by oppressing Black and Indigenous Peoples.

My great grandmothers family had to remove the O' from their last name when her family came to the states in the late 1800s.

@@umNur stop with the white envy.

Wow, thank you for sharing

God bless you and him

That is so interesting. People complaining about everything nowadays, and your great grandfather went through what he did. I never knew there were indentured slaves in Sicily. My father's side comes from Southern Switzerland and Northern Italy, ( Lombardia) and emigrated to Canada. My father's side trip to North America wasn't as interesting as your great grandfathers!

@@normano3573 Interesting indeed. He lived in tenement building right on the canal in downtown Buffalo. The street along the canal was know as Dante place - hell on earth and the whole area was condemned in the 1930s and leveled. There is a book written about it - Crossroads of America.

@@vincentcoppola9832 It's so interesting hearing the stories of how in this case Italians came to North America or other places. I know a lot of Lombardian's ended up in Australia and that there were a lot of Italian immigrants that went Argentina and even South Africa. I guess it was by chance my fathers side ended up in Pier 21 in Halifax and not in Ellis Island. That book you mentioned sounds fascinating. Should be a movie made about it, or even of your great grandfather. You weren't originally an Andolini? lol. Thanks for sharing. Go Bills!!

Have you ever read the Bible..? Slavery has been around longer than religion itself.

This is one of the best posts so far, and we have been arguing the same points. Thanks for watching.

Terrified they'll be associated with some backwards notion of sovereignty, the whole Irish establishment are spineless!

@@markaxworthy2508 Why are you spamming this video's comment section?

@@markaxworthy2508 Thank you for helping prove one of my points! At no point did I (or the author of the video) compare experiences of the Irish 'slaves' with Black American 'slaves'. You hear the word 'slave' and immediately jump to the 'Black American Slavery' association. It would be like using the word 'drug' and only associating it with 'heroin'. It is people like you, who keep trying to 'deflect' this discussion into a 'competition' on experiences and severity. Clearly, my point was dealing with the history of the forcible removal of Irish to the Caribbean/West Indies and the US, in the late 17th and early to mid 18th centuries. Nobody is denying the history of the Irish taking slaves historically, just as nobody can deny the history of Vikings/British/Portuguese/Africans etc etc, doing the same. At point (5) in your deflection, you talk about limited terms. Can you provide ANY evidence that (1) these were limited term Indentures of Servitude (ie. Written Indentures) or (2) if penal servitude sentences ANY record of these individual sentences being handed down by a Court of law? (i.e. Court Records) You CANNOT because they do not exist! The reason some of these Irish made it out of the West Indies and to the US is threefold (1) some were granted their freedom and could travel to the 13 Colonies (2) some were ACTUAL indentured servants who's term was up and (3) some escaped their confinement and some became pirates/privateers and some made it to Louisiana and the protection of the French. As for your point about us "having enough to complain about" ..... please elaborate ... are you FINALLY taking responsibility for other acts of oppression and dehumanization of the Irish over 800 years of British rule? I'm interested Mr. 'Axworthy' (good Saxon name BTW)! Finally, 'Gone with the Wind' .... SERIOUSLY!!! LOL I don't recall Rhett Butler or any of the O'Hara's having an Irish accent ...... maybe, just maybe ... that piece of fiction was written about a 5th generation Irish American family! They say that that to the 'victor' goes the right to record history BUT when the 'victor' is no longer in control, then it is only right and proper that we re-examine the version of history we have been sold ... "warts n all"!

People like t His professor now rule Ireland and they are in the process of destroying us and our way of life and history..!!Ireland for the Irish!!! Get out of Europe foreigners get out....!

Awesome history

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Bill I'm a May as well (I added the E). We might well be cousins. I love that story 🤩

@@graciemaye6381 Thank you. My name ends differently than your and is very rare.

Well you have incorrect history then because the English never used conscription until the First World War. Conscripted your Irish ancestor to fight in the colonies?! Wrong. Typical incorrect Hollywood portrayal of history of bad cowardly effete English not even doing their own fighting. Anyway, most of the bad history in Ireland was due to the Norman aristocracy who conquered England in 1066 and then conquered parts of Ireland in the 12th century. They were called 'English' landowners in Ireland, despite being of Norman stock. I know it is clichéd lazy history to do the old English = Baddies; Irish = Goodies stereotype of history but you really need to get your facts straight. So, you have a bit of Irishness from 180 years ago ... Great. I am English and had an Irish great grandfather - like millions of English, Scots, Welsh, Irish, we have mixed together for 2000 years - but don't feel any need to cling to some fake sense of Irishness like a 'build your own bear' kind of geneology and don't need an American who knows nothing about England or Ireland to tell us what is what as historical and cultural fact. I am English and you are American, simple as that.

They wes also a slick system that added time for the simplist infraction

Good post. Thanks for watching

Exactly!!!! You are 100% correct

She had a diary she was allowed to read and write ……hmmmm that’s sound like exactly what the Afro Americans went through

​@@youugly2037you think all blacks weren't allowed to read?

@@youugly2037 Not exactly. How did this young woman become literate ? And what were the consequences? Despite the efforts of abolitionists, it was a crime to teach black slaves to read and write because it could aid escape. It was done in secret. For the slave, punishment consisted of physical torture, resale to hard labor plantations -even death.

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Exactly. It doesn't suit the "poor me" narrative of black Americans.West Africans, their cousins and ancestors, aren't such little beeches.

@@Kitiwake whatever the truth of indentured servitude it does not detract from the evils of slavery. The only " poor me" I see is the whining of Confederates over the collapse of their evil little state.

What the fuck is that last long very intelectual rant about ? Good to see people r realizing that slavery ecsited sine the dawn of time no matter what colour race or Creed that's the way of the world still is today but in a more subtle manner

​@@fiachramaccana280 you a carpet bagger I see 😑

Thanks for sharing your family story and for watching!

N it’s long known the Irish used to enslave people. They’d often raid the coast of Cumbria, capturing men, women, and children to sell into slavery, St Patrick ring a bell…

Come home brother.

@@karlbyrne6021 Yes, you could be doing with all of your diaspora returning rather than the new 'Irish' your government is set on creating.

Same here brother. I’ve been doing genealogy for a few years. My family were all here in the 1600’s (colonial) and my DNA shows I’m 30% Irish. How did that happen? Both grandmothers red headed, red headed brother born on St Patty’s day! Lol.

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Indentured children usually had 6 or 7 year labor contracts that ended when they turned 19.

His name was changed later to Kunta Kinte to appeal to victahood advocates.

@@billwilson3609 Most died before their contractual obligations were fulfilled, and I doubt you have anything to substantiate your claim. There might be instances where what you say is true, but this would be the exception and not the rule. I've been researching this for years. There's a group of us who have been. At least 15 years now. We're all over the globe. We all have similar stories. For whatever reason, we're not allowed to speak about our own history? I'm thankful to whoever did this and they did a really good job in a short amount of time. The indentured weren't volunteers. False debt was levied, there was no ability to defend oneself against the debt in court, even if the legal term used was "indentured."

@@billyshatner9408 The colonies had a labor shortage for the longest time so found a need to pass laws that provided protection for indentured servants and slaves. Some obeyed the laws while others didn't. The OP's ancestor probably received some education from the ship captain who then sold the smart kid to his lawyer who continued his education since educated hired help was hard to find back then. My parents paternal ancestors came to the colonies in 1614 (Jamestown) and 1620 (New Amsterdam). Mt mother's arrived at Jamestown when 19 and with plenty of money. By 1620 he was down by the estuary surveying land and running a lumber operation using indentured servants. He and his adult children did well by treating their indentured servants then later, slaves like family. The former servants stayed in their employ for wages with the slaves being paid wages after 7 years. They were living out in the frontier clearing land for farming so made sense to treat everyone right so they wouldn't have a reason to run away. My father's was a Swede that was a ship's carpenter on a Dutch privateer. He ended up running a ship maintenance and repair operation at the northern end of the Delaware Estuary before the colony of New Sweden was founded. Don't have a clue if he worked servants or slaves since no records were kept back then. He cleared out with his family and tools after the English took control of the region and began hanging anyone that had known associations with pirates and privateers. They went to the western frontier of New York to live with the Iroquois where he changed the family name from Welsun to Wilson. They were happy to have them around since they could work metal and repair firearms. His descendants went on to become canal builders, starting with the Erie Canal then more in Ohio and Indiana. I'm sure they worked the Irish on those projects. Had a few Irish friends in Chicago who said their ancestors worked on the canals then went back to the growing communities they had passed to find work to buy some land and settle down.

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Sounds a lot like the way coal companies treated Appalachian folks. You worked in the mine & were paid in scrip, which was only tender for the purchase of goods at a company store. The markup at the company stores was extreme, as was the rental of company housing. To the operator of the channel, maybe consider a segment regarding the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest rebellion since the Civil War, which saw 10,000 miners marching against federal troops and hired thugs from the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

Unlike the enslavement of Europeans, the African slaves had to be purchased thus making the whites more dispensable.

They still do this to Christians in brick production in Pakistan. I lost track of the organization I supported in the past to get them out.

@@Mr._Anderpson the age ole saying I owe my soul to the Company Store.

Sorry, you don't get to redefine slavery just because you don't like the conditions that your forebears may or may not have worked under. That's called presentism. What you specifically refer to was first outlawed in GB in 1725 and most recently codified in 1996. wiki Truck Acts for the details.

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I’ve known* 🤍 (Do you best to not creat run on sentences by simply adding a comma. Where a “but” is added merely begin after the but. For instance “My mother spoke about this when we were (of “I was”) younger. However, I have never heard this from other sources until now.” The addition of however is not necessary. This sentence structure could’ve been as good by beginning the new sentence with “I.” It’s clear you do care on some level about punctuation, proper capitalization & sentence structure. Which is genuinely half of the battle. 🙂 Many of these habits remained into my 20’s as I grew up poor without educated parents. I myself only made it to graduation of the 8th grade. You have this. 💪🏼💪🏼 ❤🤍 💙

The irish with all due respect weren't part of the trans Atlantic slave trade, that was all African slaves and then the breeding of African slaves when slavery was outlawed in Britian and the transportation of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean.

@@aarondigby5054 - No one said they were traded through AST. Go off though.

@@aarondigby5054 - Slavery happened for thousands of years before the AST and has been happening for hundreds of years past the AST. 💀

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I sent your channel to my old man as well, VNV 0351!

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From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well. Https:// www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/the-irish-slave-trade-forgotten-white-slaves/

LYNN- MY Irish Ancestors was kidnapped and sold into slavery his Owner was John Meeks.

@@concettaworkman5895 Gossip You have no proof.

@@Mermaid404 There's plenty of proof online to find if you're not too intellectually-lazy to search, you dunce.

Great story. Sift through the comments, you see how many people know or rather don't want to know about this.

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Maybe it was focused on more heavily there because darn near everyone was at least a little Irish. We spent quite a bit of time on the subject, not that I remember every detail. I had always assumed it was common knowledge. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to make this video.

Thank you.

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL sift thru his ball sack hair after ok friend

England emptied their crowded debtors prisons by shipping the inmates to the colonies where they had a severe labor shortage. By then, a good number of colonists had learned that they needed to treat slaves and indentured servants like family to keep them from running away. Your ancestors were lucky to work for one of those so had to be delighted to have been sent over to now live a better life and showed their appreciation by being good hands.

Mandingo!!!

Africans started slavery long before a white man had ever seen a black one. American, Canadian and Latin American Indians all practiced slavery. All races practiced slavery, until Christianity forced it’s outlawing. Africa, Arab countries, India, China still practice slavery. The word slave came from the Turks invading and enslaving Slavic people, because they became so in demand, the word Slav was used to describe them and the word came into common usage. I’m 1/4 Abenaki, American Indian, we are neither native or indigenous our ancestors crossed the Bering Strait from what is now called Siberia.

Don't believe that lie they mixed because they loved each other their kids were sent to America

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@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL So how & when did the Irish become free? Isn’t there a date to their “independence”? Does this slavery of the Irish in the colonies of the British here in North America have a timeline? We’re there any heroes or leaders of Irish resistance? Did the enslaved Irish align themselves with the escaped Africans/Maroons or native Americans against the invading enslavers? Is it true that the Irish were the overseers & hunters of Africans that escaped on a majority of the death camps/plantations?

Hi. As a American I can tell you that we, or at least I, have known of the slavery of the American Indians, the Chinese, the Irishmen and the African people. What I didn't know is that there were so many of each of them that were put into slavery! Yes, I knew of the different people that were slaves but I, we, here in America are always directed to the enslavement of the black people. Because everything is always about them. It doesn't matter what it is, it's going to be turned into a direct assault on the black people and they are going to always say that they got the worst of everything but were the first to do everything 🙄🙄. And that, sir, is how it is directed to us here in the states.

@@karaghanascythianslayer3822 stop making this about black people

@@Bob-ed8hc Hey! I’m just asking the type of questions people like you are reluctant to answer. This is because you aren’t interested in the truth you’re interested in pushing a false narrative in order to try counter and minimize the evil deeds & efforts of the Christian slave trade on people of African descent.

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No they haven't lol. But they'll doing well in their country up until they started allowing mass migration.

There's a very good book on this subject called "White Cargo".

Who wrote the book? When was it published and how can I get my hands on a copy?

Thanks to booze.....🥴

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Why dont Historians ever say that James the 1st of England was James the 6th of Scotland he was the Son of Mary Queen of Scots and ugly Elizabeth of England was so jealous of her cousin Mary that she got made up charges against Mary Who was still a practicing Roman Catholic and the new Church of England were terrified that James the 6th would turn England back to Catholicism

You never heard about it before because it never happened.

​@@Ru_1963 Go away. Far away.

@@TheBatugan77 Is the USA far away enough? I'm sorry you cannot handle reality.

Thanks you kindly

Why should you get reparations, have you ever been a slave?

Norway has been really quiet after this video was released.

I’m with you.

Hear hear!

I'm of black Irish, can anyone tell me what that means? I'm a tanned color from the south, considered white , but proud of my heritage.

Goes against the current agenda. Thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching!

Good post thanks

I find it interesting that those that claim all about the abuse of slavery think it was only they. Even if they learned about this. They wouldn't care, because Irish are white. Like since Biden has been president. If you're a white man and don't suck fucking fools asses, you're a racist. They even call influential and political black people white supremacists. Bob Marley said it best. Nobody listens or hears this because people lost their empathy. He said " when the rain falls it does not fall on one man's house ". You're not the one and only.

@@redgreen8303 I agree with you, thanks for watching

My family came to the new world in the 17th Century. Now I wonder if they came willingly.

Glad you liked it!

True, many of the records are still available. Thanks for watching.

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Agreed

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Truth! You have an entire generation growing up being taught a certain narrative and half truths

Actually, I like to think history is when the ones in charge lose their hold on what they want you to see. History is what it is, and all secrets have a shelf life.

Amazing family history. Thanks for watching.

Glad you enjoyed it

These people were indentured servants.

@@Options23 no, they were slaves. I bet you didn't know the the Irish built New Orleans because black slaves were too valuable to risk, but no one cared how many Irish died. There were far more white slaves than black slaves in the USA.

​@Shanteria can you link a source of the contracts? With no contract they can call it what they want your a slave. It is in no way to take away the horrors of chatel slavery but the Irish have suffered their fair share as well. Pretending they weren't slaves takes the humanity from the situation.

@@Options23 these were specifically noted as records of slaves. If you have anything to prove otherwise the name listed is Ryan.

Half of my family came over as “indentured”. Slavery? ABSOLUTELY. No freedom, no ownership, NOTHING. Their graves lie on Camp Johnson, NC.

Glad it was helpful!

it's totally ignored because we can't possibly make the English out to be the evil villains they truly are.

​@@Xander1Sheridan when their island goes under the waves from sea rise I will laugh.

Hugh, if you are reading history or commentary written or taught from an anglo viewpoint of course you won't.

Missed in history classes because it's a myth created by white supremacists. But it's the interwebs so it spreads quickly. Look for sources of this myth that predate widespread internet usage and you can find it's origin.