After the defeat of King James in 1691, England once again shipped out thousands of Irish prisoners who were taken after the Irish Rebellion of 1798. These prisoners were shipped to America and to Australia, specifically to be sold as slaves.No Irish slave shipped to the West Indies or America has ever been known to have returned to Ireland. n the early 1860s, photographs of children dubbed white slaves were circulated as part of a campaign to raise money for public schools for emancipated slaves. The group was first featured in an engraving of a photograph entitled Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored in an issue of Harpers Weekly in January 1864. According to an article titled Portraits of Slave Children, the images were meant to evoke sympathy from wealthy Northerners for potential donations. As writer Kathleen Collins explained, advocates hoped that these enigmatic portraits of Caucasian-featured children would encourage Northern benefactors to contribute to the future of a race to which these children found themselves arbitrarily confined. In the photos the children--who included a black boy named Isaac White, and four other bi-racial children Charles Taylor, Rebecca Huger, Rosina Downs and Augusta Broujey--were adorned in their Sundays best, wrapped in American flags with captions that told readers of how they were turned away from a Philadelphia hotel on account of color, and their struggles being sold as slaves.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 22:21:29 +0000
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