However it is thought to refer to invaders throughout Irish history. This is what we know today as the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Saharan slave trades. So while many where likely shipped to the new colonies and the West Indies, it was likely as indentured servants, not slaves. Dougherty Irish. They account for a lot of the Irish sounding names in the south, whether they were Scots names, or co opted Irish names, they do not belong to the Irish family system. When such a small society is reduced in such a short time by nearly half (during the famine) theres a whole host of socio-phycological problems that ensue, one youll be familiar with we often make light of now a days when it comes to The Irish is: alcoholism, but also extreme poverty, broken families, etc, which Im sure you can relate with as a member of the African American community in the United States am I right? Johnson took him to court and the judge ruled that Anthony Johnson did not have to release this man. Blacks do not collectively own a patent on cruel slavery. The field needs to be tilted in the other direction for a few decades before we can be on level ground. The most famous people with the surname Hayes were Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, and retired basketball player Elvin Hayes. What a lot of people dont know is that Irish were slaves too, hundreds of thousands were sent to work in the West Indies and they blended with the black slaves thus we have Irish names like McFadden, McDonalds, etc. With this, Irish people and families began to associate with the collective surname of ODubhghaill. Physical race traits such as skin color were used much later as a justification for slavery, not a motivation to start it. Another theory of the origin of the term "Black Irish" is that these people were descendants of Spanish traders who settled in Ireland and even descendants of the few Spanish sailors who were washed up on the west coast of Ireland after the disaster of the Spanish Armada of 1588. My grandfather gave me His name..I lived with him in the flesh and to the edjit who called the ira terrorists. Surnames today: There are many different origins for Irish names today but the vast majority can be broken down into either of three categories: Gaelic Irish, Cambro-Norman, and finally Anglo-Irish. The main difference is that 600,000 people died in a civil war to end Black slavery, not Irish indentured service. Black Surname Meaning Black is a Scottish surname primarily. But this narrative of Irish victimization is being used by racist whites to oppose social progress Salem, Massachusetts. Maybe wealthy Irish werent common, but they they did exist. I added the Facebook icon to my blog so you can share the link. Judging history, or whole groups of people through myopic glasses is not only intellectually dishonest but harmful in the modern practice of superimposing everything over the wrongs of the past. They dont even notice it (MEAN). The Irish were treated as less of a person than blacks, maybe not worthy of the slave owners name! One last thing, the only person / historian if you can really call him that ,since he is really just a flippin Englishman from Ireland .really he is descended from English lords which is why he is on ten different websites promoting irish slavery is a myth. This fact is recorded in ancient China, Egypt and Mesopotamia. In 1840 there were 196 Blake families living in Maine. There have always been slaves, everywhere, all over the world, just as there has always been war and violence. Irish were indentured servants,which lasted 7 years. Why do we continue to ignore the pain of others? Racism based on the color of your skin post dates the bulk of African slavery, and predates the arrival of most Americans ancestors. It is also possible that within the various Irish cultures that became established in America that there was a pecking order, a class system that saw some of their countrymen labeled as "black.". Over centuries, as groups arrived and fled, ancient Ireland began to take shape. One of the most famous Wilsons is actor Owen Wilson, as well as 28th president of the United States Woodrow Wilson. And it is entirely possible that they formed families with the native peoples there, or when the slaves were finally freed by England in the English colonies of the West Indies, in the 1830s, with them and that could be how so many African Americans have Irish surnames. From what I understand, the African slaves didnt have or use last names during that time period. They were owned by an Irish family. Dont forget modern recorded history versus older nonrecorded history or minutely recorded history. Africans (Hamites) did not sell their own ppl. The Origins of the Term 'Black Irish'. I have been enjoying ancestry. As for how, I insist on the qualifier some, of the Blacks got their last names, I think this may just be embellished truth. In other words, the South stood more to lose. Ive seen the pictures of long ago. It depend ends on how you look at it!!!!!!! The Scottish Picts and Celts certainly had darker skins than the invading Anglo-Saxons who may have given them that nickname. Do this; check the census records and slave owner property records. Then, for many of the worlds most powerful and influential nations of the time, this is where slavery was put to an end. That is the first recorded slave in the colonies. The first slave owner in the colonies was Anthony Johnson, a black African. Saying that the Irish were treated worse because they were Catholic might be so on the occasional individual basis, but as a group, they didnt have their history, their names, and even the memories of their religions and homelands stripped from them. This is a larger issue that could unify people against those who are demonically possessed but still call shots. if you go to a protestant area in belfast they are putting polish and africans out of the area. Im getting pretty sick of people (of all races) whitewashing the oppression of the Irish from history because it doesnt fit with the white skin = oppressors, everyone else = victims narrative. The argument is as follows: the Irish had an advantage because of their skin color. In this way of debate it subdivides the issue of slavery in degrees of worse and worse-er. American comedian, political commentator, and television host William Maher is one of the most well-known Mahers. Chattel is another form, but we dont call it chattel servitude, on the other hand slavery and servitude has been used interchangeably with indentured, mostly semantics in regards to an individual vs a people. Oh and as part of an undergraduate class on American History of Business, I spent a significant portion of that class looking at actual microfilm of ads for at first, RUNAWAY INDENTURED SERVANTS in the USA and had to evaluate what changed in those ads for runaways as the business of getting help changed from INDENTURED temporary workers to ENSLAVED PROPERTY owned by those placing ads. Irelands population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Black Name Meaning English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak (e) 'black' (Old English blc blaca) a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. The terminology is interchangeable, while there are cetainly differences in forms of slavery to say there was none is a tad rich, unless youve been an indentured servant yourself perhaps you know the benefits? If white apprentices could be sold as part of a ships chattels, it is not surprising to learn, according to a further announcement in the same paper, that: A Black Negro man, well qualified in labour and industry, for a gentlemans house, garden or stable, who has seven years eto serve this nation is now to be disposed of. Ever wonder why those hillbillies talk funny? That is sooooo stupid. At the time the Irish were indentured or enslaved or some similar term, the Irish were not yet categorized as white but as just Irish. Read How the Irish became white. Then also read The Invention of the White Race., Good information and horrible pass but good to know and tell others about it, This is absolutely fascinating. The intention of this was to divulge their cultural stance and tell of their intentions to bring force and darkness upon Ireland. Leo Whelan was an acclaimed Irish portrait painter. Derogatory names for immigrant groups are legion and in the case of those who left Ireland include "Shanty Irish" and almost certainly "Black Irish." It's quite popular in Scotland. Second, there was intermarriage in the caribbean with descendents from the cromwellian slave trade of the Irish and African slaves. In the sixteen hundreds EVERYONE came as indentured servants including Africans. This interesting name, with variant forms, Duffie, MacDuffie, McFee, McPhee, D'Duffie and O'Duhig, is an Anglicization of the ancient Gaelic personal name "Mac Dhubhshith" a compound of elements, "mac" meaning "son of" plus "dubh", "black" and . What utter pointless nonsense is this!? As far as Irish slaves being treated worse than African slaves, not true. If Irish and blacks suffer slavery together, why is it only the blacks that lost their surnames and the Irish somehow retained their surnames and a knowledge of who they were [IRISH]?!? As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. There was discrimination and stereotyping of Irish, and there were many Irish supporting the abolition movement, and later solidarity with the civil rights movement. A slave was property and could be killed if the owner chose to do so. We have to stop making up excuses for white slaveholders and the damage they inflicted onto their black captives, including the removal of our names and stripping us of even the knowledge of knowing where we are (specifically) from as the Irish, English, Spaniards, Scottish, etc. Paddyboy, and a lot (not all, obviously) of the Irish coming to the colonies werent Irish either, but came from UK families who spent a few generations in Ireland, then moved on. Presbyterian freeholders? Irish were indentured servants, never slaves. Or the African names were difficult to pronounce and not common to them so they gave them a name that was easier? If youre essentially dying a slow death, it might as well be slavery. This was brought about by many different factors and not just slavery as most people seem to think. If you look at census lists or the property lists of white planters, you will see that their human property were only given first names. There are a number of Irish Surnames like Duffy that specifically refer to Black. There are many different races from different parts of the world, all with their own diverse history that share the same or similar skin colors. Paris Donnatella is an avid writer and traveller. African tribes were happy to take slaves during wars, and more than happy to sell them on to arab and european traders. I dont know why white people are in such a hurry to prove theyre oppressed but this just isnt true. Lots of questions still to be answered. http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish-slaves-myth-2369653-Oct2015/. Carran A spelling variant of Curran, this Irish surname is an anglicized form of ' Corraidhin' referring to 'descendant of Corraidhin.' The word Corraidhin is derived from 'Corradh' which means 'little spear.' Endentured servitude is not some made up concept, as this article implies, it was a legal term with legal and Biblical limitations. Forgetting the past opens the door to repeating its horrors . Notable Cunninghams include American professional basketball player Dante Cunningham and football quarterback Randall Cunningham. Thanks for trying to provide some historical fair play to the memory of Irish Slaves.). No bagpipes or Kilts) who were part of the English invasion of Northern Ireland. King James II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. The english continued to try to extinguish the Irish through starvation, oppression etc in Ireland. British politician, writer, and broadcaster Bryan Magee is one of the most well-known Magees. All this purity has got to go, and the truth come out!!! 3) even if they were 100,000 Irish slaves (which there were not) how dare you attempt to chastise us for talking about the African holocaust? We should remember this and not let one injustice isnt used to counter the other. African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). The article highlights the horrors that happened, The extent of which is nightmarish. I know where mine came from. @My Creole Belle You are a perfect example of exactly why the oppressed Irish and blacks never came together and united against their common oppressors; because the oppressors (the ruling class of white racists) loved nothing more than to play the lesser races off against each other. or any other colour or race, you just needed to be POOR. This is nothing new, look throughout recorded human history at every time one group has oppressed several other groups rather than unite as brothers-in-arms and the oppressed groups turn against each other in the hopes of receiving their masters favour. Just dont take my stuff from me!! That is the most ridiculous thing Ive ever heard. I will never make any claim of who was better off or who had it worse. Irish ancestry stretches to the far reaches of the globe. Your comment about liberals is also misdirected, they dont seem to be making the argument for Irish slavery. http://theirishwereslavestoo.tumblr.com/post/120600939730/debunked-the-global-research-article-on-irish, Maybe those books can help youtheres many more, this is not something made up by one person on one website. Famous Kellys include actor and director Gene Kelly, 20th-century artist Ellsworth Kelly, and actress and Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly. Am Afro-American. One of the most famous people with the name Campbell is model and actress Naomi Campbell. How do prisoners spend their time? This entire article reads like those oh-so-learned-sounding pieces that explain why women are simply not suited to traditionally male jobs, or why Black Americans by design and selection are simply not suitable for the sciences or for generic corporate America, and should stick to sports and physical labor.