Thread: Sexism/racism etc in older fiction
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Old 01-20-2018, 03:15 AM   #58
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
I hadn't thought about that. Maybe that's why most of the Irish slaves were sent to West Indie plantations, where most of the native people were dark skinned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/u...aves-myth.html

https://www.snopes.com/irish-slaves-early-america/

https://apnews.com/920e1c738df04555bccd56c09770b36d

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-03-...sh-slaves-myth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_slaves_myth


I hope I've made my point and you should be ashamed of yourself for trying to compare "Irish slavery" to the actual history of the American slave trade.

EDIT: I like how far you got with that before anyone checked you.
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