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Thread #96748   Message #1897409
Posted By: ard mhacha
01-Dec-06 - 09:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: Britain's shame of slave trade.
Subject: RE: BS: Britain's shame of slave trade.
Teribus it is not good enough to casually state that Irish ports were used by the Corsairs and also your statement that an Irishman guided the Corsairs into Baltimore. He was a fisherman who was picked up and in fear of his life guided the Corsairs into Baltimore. The inhabitants of Baltimore were English "settlers", the records show that the names of those captured and killed were English.
Only two women of all of those captured were ransomed from Algiers namely Ellen Hawkins and Joan Braybrook.
When the Spanish Armada in 1580s lost many ships and men on the west coast of Ireland, they were very very quickly rounded up, so your Irish ports hideouts for the Corsairs is one I have never come across and has never been mentioned in any of the books I have on this subject.
For further information read Captives by Linda Colley.