Happy St. Patrick's Day
https://substack.com/@3r1cc0at3s/note/c-101188740?r=51hdz9 Happy St. Patrick's Day Did you know that in the 1600s when England had captured Jamaica from Spain that the English had thousands of Irish people brought to Jamaica as “indentured servants”? These Irish were “indentured” which means bound, they were bound for serving on sugar and tobacco plantations for periods ranging from 2 to 7 years. This servitude was without pay and was done by contracts where the Irish served for free in exchange for passage to the New World, food, housing and shelter for their indentured periods and many of whom were forced to do so against their wills and although not considered slavery because they had term contracts which could be extended if they tried to run away and women could get impregnated if they tried to run. In summation: 1. Some Irish were forcibly removed from their homeland and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in boats by the English. 2. Those Irish were forced to work on plantatio...