This is going to be my last time with this conversation.
Even when you take the song the Ballymena. The song is clearly a working song. Put the ballymena on the dock and paint the ballymena black. Clearly a working song, it doesn't talk about smuggling or voyages between ports.
It was black labourers who would have been painting those ships and singing the song and anyone who argues against that is clearly delusional.
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