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Bah, Everyones against me.
Brits enslaved the Irish before the blacks, I hail from Ireland.
And how could you prove they didn't enslave my direct ancestors?
Unless you have prove, you shouldn't act like you know my entire blood-line.
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The British never
enslaved the Irish, they merely occupied the conquered Ireland and held it under British rule. Some argue that because of the British rule, some of the Irish people had to live in poverty, but the fact was that these people would've been living in poverty had the Brits conquered Ireland or not. The only documents that suggest that the Brits enslaved any Irish are anti-British propaganda, and make horrifically incorrect statements like "the industrial success of Britain was mostly due to the mistreatment of the Irish" etc. and claims that the British enslaved Irish peasants. Where as actually the Industrial success of Britain had nothing to do with the Irish, and more to do with the people of Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cornwall - No Irish people were ever enslaved by the British, but many hundreds of thousands of Africans were. These documents also tend to claim that many Irish people left Ireland because of British oppression and slave driving, when in actual fact it was as a direct result of the potato famine, and many of the Irish people who left Ireland came to Britain. Some of them left to escape British rule, on the belief that British rule restricted their rights as a citizen of Ireland - opinions on this are still divided.
It helps to get your facts straight before throwing wild statements around.
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