Irish indentured servants in the colonial Americas. The claim that Irish people were enslaved in the British American Colonies stems from a misrepresentation of the idea of “indentured servitude.” ...

The story of Irish indentured servants sent from here to Barbados and Jamaica from the 1600s onwards is complex and has become an immersive research project for multimedia artist Marianne Keating ...

"White indentured servitude was so very different from black slavery as to be from another galaxy of human experience," as Donald Harman Akenson put it in If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat ...

Indentured servitude was difficult, deadly work, and many indentured servants died before their terms were over. But indentured servitude was temporary, with a beginning and an end. Those who ...

Slavery is perhaps one of the oldest profit making endeavors in human history and the Irish were a special target for a thousand years, persecuted by one faction or another, to include enslavement ...

The roots of Irish and African solidarity can be traced to colonial times, when enslaved Africans and indentured Irish servants interacted on British-owned estates in North America.. While ...

Stack cut right to the chase when he observed that the Irish slaves myth is based on "the misinterpretation of the history of indentured servitude, which is how many poor Europeans migrated to ...

George Taylor was the Founding Father who earned his keep in America by sweating over hot coals. He arrived in Pennsylvania from Ireland in 1736, an indentured servant to an iron foundry owner who ...

An unlikely bond between an Irish indentured servant and an enslaved plantation worker is the subject of Lindy Keane Carter's latest novel, The Rice Birds, which has been described as ...