Flappy, it wasn't just "black people", but Irish, and many other people in the world that didn't have what we now enjoy as "liberty". In fact, doing some genealogy work recently on some of the 32 ggg-grandparents and earlier following on some of my Irish landowner ancestors...(and of course, there are some of the Protestant English lines that came to stay in Ireland as well....)
One particular Irish landowner became a white slave sent to Barbados by Cromwell in 1647. Read their story sometime. There are still at least 50,000 unknown Irish bodies buried in Barbados. My ancestor eventually escaped, and came to America. He worked hard, had children, and eventually the family made a good life for themselves. You would recognize the name.
1642-1652 Civil War.
1649 Cromwell lands in Ireland; massacre of Drogheda and sack of Wexford.
1650 Catholic land owners exiled to Connaught.
1653 Cromwell's subjugation of Ireland complete. Irish landowners evicted and land handed over to Protestant settlers.
1656 More than 60,000 Irish Catholics had been sent as slaves to Barbados, and other islands of the Caribbean.
1672 Over 6,000 Irish boys and women sold as slaves since England gained control of Jamaica.
members.tripod.com/pg4anna/hist.htm
1658: The population of Ireland,estimated at 1,500,000, before Cromwell, was
reduced by two-thirds, to 500,000, at Cromwell's death in 1658.
rootsweb.com
"Liberty" for all is a rather recent phenomenon in America. Did black people have "liberty" from 1619-1865? Did women have "liberty" until they got the right to vote? "Liberty" is a constantly shifting abstract noun, so spare me, please. |
