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The Irish in the Anglo-Caribbean: Servants or Slaves?
- Author(s):
- Liam Hogan (see profile) , Laura McAtackney, Matthew Reilly
- Date:
- 2016
- Subject(s):
- Caribbean Area, History, Slavery, Ireland, Mythology
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Caribbean history, History of slavery, Irish history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M61Z41S48
- Abstract:
- Rather than academic ‘quibbling’, as is often suggested by those who perpetuate the ‘Irish were slaves too’ meme, the differences and commonalities between these two forms of unfree labour are of fundamental importance to our understanding of the development of racialised perpetual chattel slavery in the Anglo-American colonies.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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