Steve King's Ignorant Tweet reminded me of this: How The British Reinvented Slavery

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8. irish indentured.

tho the white wing misuses the irish situation, the truth is we were slaves, too.
lords arranged from victims of the "famine", which was actually a genocide, to work off their passage to america.

we werent tortured, but we did the most dangerous jobs. and if you got injured, you couldnt work off your debt, and you went to debtors prison.
we didnt come in chains, but we came in coffin ships. my grandparents on both sides came in steerage. we were lucky. everyone who got on the boat got off the both on their feet.
they didnt steal our children, but many were given up for adoption because you couldnt feed a family w/o a real job. and if you were single and pg, you went to a home, and they took your baby.
i dont know how prevalent rape of irish women was, but dont doubt there was plenty of it when they were poor and powerless and trapped in a foreign land.

the brits were fuckers who enslaved ppl w a pen instead of a whip.
i tell ppl my ancestors came in chains made of paper.