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Irish Immigrants: Slavery In The United States

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Slavery is a topic that has many victims across a plane of different ethnicities, the Irish and African just happens to have the biggest majority in the last 300 years. The market for this trade was always expanding, and cheap labor was always in demand. Plantations needed workers that would work no matter the conditions, slaves fit that profile. They worked without any pay, with minimal housing/food, and did their jobs even enduring the horrible abuse. We wrote this paper to help shed light on the Irish. A group that has been looked over quite simply because they weren't mentioned as widely in text books.

When they (the Irish Immigrants) arrived at the colonies, many went to the North to work in shipyards or on ships doing things that ranged …show more content…

Ireland has always had religious problems between, Pagans, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish people. Ireland has always been a place of interest in English eyes so Ireland was continually concord over and over by the English and the currency, traditions and religions changed with every English King, Queen or Irish Rebel. Between 1641 and 1691 Oliver Cromwell changed everything, Irish Catholics, Pagans and Jews were killed or shipped off to be slaves. The influence to immigrate was very strong, their options were to go to a new world of which they knew no one and had nothing, be killed for your religion, or be gathered up and shipped away as a slave. It was a hard decision they all were forced to …show more content…

Eventually, Scottish settlers began to come in large numbers to Ulster in the early decades of the 1600’s. James I, the English monarch, sought to solidify control by transferring land ownership to Protestants and by settling their lands with Protestant tenants (English and Scottish). Scottish settlers continued to come to Ireland throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scots-Irish immigrants settled in the American colonies during the 1600’s. However, the first major migration of Scots-Irish to America was a group that came with Rev. James McGregor from County Londonderry to New England in 1718. They arrived at Boston, and many of them moved to New Hampshire, establishing the town of

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