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  • Debunking the Imagery of the “Irish Slaves” Meme

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17/03/2016

Debunking the Imagery of the “Irish Slaves” Meme

Debunking the Imagery of the “Irish Slaves” Meme

Those that promote the meme of Irish perpetual hereditary chattel slavery use a variety of images entirely unrelated to indentured servitude to accompany their anti-history.  Liam Hogan examined a selection of them. 1. Sale of a Slave Girl in Rome by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1884) The most popular image to accompany the spurious “Irish: the Forgotten White Slaves” articles. It is cropped from a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme. In this work, Gérôme imagined a scene in a Roman slave market… about two thousand years ago. 2. The… Read More »

OPINION + POLITICS Charles Paxson, Dion Boucicault, East India Company, Elizabeth Brownrigg, HMS Owen Glendower, Irish maids, Irish Slaves, Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, Japanese POW camp, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Lewis Hine, Liam Hogan, Mary Ellen Mark, Memoirs of a Fugitive, Newgate Calendar, Northamptonshire, Prisoners of War, Putumayo, Richard Hildreth, Shutter Stock, The 'Redlegs' of Barbados, The White Slave; or, Theodor de Bry, Thomas Mayne Reid, Walter Hardenburg, World War 2 3 Comments

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