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Thursday, March 6, 2014
The Black/Irish Slavery Thing Deserves It's Own Movie
"At Westport House, Sheelyn Browne and historian Anne Chambers have a permanent exhibition that tells the unsettling story of slavery from an Irish perspective.
...The uncomfortable reality that many of the plantation owners – and by implication slavers – in Jamaica at the time were Irish.
The Irish, along with the English and Scottish, owned the majority of Jamaica's 600 sugar plantations – and, of course, the estimated 200 slaves of African origin on each one,..."
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