#indenturedservitude — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #indenturedservitude, aggregated by home.social.
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In what I think of as the best tradition of #IrishRepublicanism, there is an empathy for exploited and subjugated people around the world because of the history of British colonial rule in #Ireland.
In the USA this sometimes morphs into the belief that, because of things like #IndenturedServitude, the #Irish in America had it just as bad as #BlackPeople so #IrishAmericans do not have to think of themselves as having benefited from #WhitePrivilege.
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https://archive.org/details/passage-port-and-plantation
Passage, Port and Plantation: A History of Solomon Islands Labour Migration, 1870-1914 by Peter Corris
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#SolomonIslands, #queensland, #PacificIslands, #Fiji, #Samoa, #Melanesia, #Melanesians, #britishimperialism, #australianimperialism, #indenturedservitude, #slavery, #britain, #australia, #Oceania, #antiblacknessmore than 30,000 Solomon Islanders were used by colonizers to build australia and Pacific Island colonies.