About the Book
Proclamation 1625: America's Enslavement of the Irish is the unveiling of the true and untold history of Irish slavery in America. What many Americans don’t know is that the Irish preceded the Africans as slaves in the early British colonies of America and the West Indies. They toiled in the tobacco fields of Virginia and Maryland and the sugar cane fields of Barbados and Jamaica. For over 179 years, the Irish were the primary source of slave labor in the British American colonies and the British West Indies.
King James I’s Proclamation ordering the Irish be placed in bondage opened the door to wholesale slavery of Irish men, women and children. This was not indentured servitude but raw, brutal ‘I own you’ slavery with all the mistreatment that goes with being a slave including being beaten to death.
The book progresses through the reign of 19 British monarchs and the centuries old rancor between Irish and the English and the political, social and economic conditions that led to the Irish enslavement. By the time Africans became the primary source of labor, the plantation owners had already honed their skills in using violence to increase tobacco and sugar production; they gained their experience beating the European servants and Irish slaves.
Proclamation 1625 timelines it and brings it all together; it is the complete and untold history of slavery in America.
King James I’s Proclamation ordering the Irish be placed in bondage opened the door to wholesale slavery of Irish men, women and children. This was not indentured servitude but raw, brutal ‘I own you’ slavery with all the mistreatment that goes with being a slave including being beaten to death.
The book progresses through the reign of 19 British monarchs and the centuries old rancor between Irish and the English and the political, social and economic conditions that led to the Irish enslavement. By the time Africans became the primary source of labor, the plantation owners had already honed their skills in using violence to increase tobacco and sugar production; they gained their experience beating the European servants and Irish slaves.
Proclamation 1625 timelines it and brings it all together; it is the complete and untold history of slavery in America.
About the Author
Herbert L. Byrd Jr. is president and CEO of MOJA an information technology and intelligence analysis company which supports the U.S. intelligence community and national level decision-makers. Proclamation 1625 was written in complete secrecy. No one outside of the publishing company was aware the book was being written. When the Editorial Evaluation of the book was completed in the last week in December 2015, Herbert then told his wife he had written a book. The secrecy was more about the author’s concern of whether or not he could complete the project and did not want to be subjected to the repeated question of “How’s the book coming”?
Herbert has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, LC Smith School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Herbert has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, LC Smith School of Engineering and Computer Science.
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TITLE: Proclamation 1625: America’s Enslavement of the Irish
AUTHOR: Herbert L. Byrd Jr. PUBLISHER: FriesenPress DATE OF PUBLICATION: 04/13/2016 ITEM DETAILS: Paperback $23.49 (ISBN: 978-1-4602-8564-0) Hardcover $34.49 (ISBN: 978-1-4602-8563-3) eBook $7.99 (ISBN: 978-1-4602-8565-7) PAGES: 228 CATEGORIES: HIS036020 - History, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775); SOC054000 - Social Science, Slavery; SOC031000 - Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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