Wait...did you just link the "John Martin" piece?
YOU DID!
Aw, so cute.
You REALLY need to stop hanging out in the racists- I mean conservative- Facebook groups.
They don't link real history there.
So, this bullshit racists nonsense you're posting claims that "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."
That's a lot! Like more than 50%!
REAL history says that Ireland lost about 20% of it's population due to the Cromwellian Conquest. Now, the maps and sketchy English documentation from that time claim that the conquest killed 40% of the Irish.
About 600,000.
However, modern research suggests that this was propaganda and the actual death toll was 300,000. Or 20%. Still a significant number. But well short of "Martin"s claim of 800,000.
Also, there's no evidence that Cromwell gave any kind of order to sell off a bunch of people in 1652.
Which, interestingly, the Irish population had exploded to 2 million at that point.
Although, I don't know how all they faked all those birth records in the church and all those gravesites if Cromwell was shipping all the Irish women to the West Indies.
It's all nonsense.
It's this kind of crap that racists invent and spread to demean and dimish the suffering of African Americans in slavery.
Were the Irish brought over as indentured servants? Yes.
Did suck? Yep. They were worked hard. For 4 to 7 years.
Were their children born into servitude? Nope.
Was it passed down generationally? Nope.
Were they treated better than the African slaves? Yes.
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