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by arrosenberg 1440 days ago
I’m referring to the plantations of Ulster. You know, the place where the world plantation got its current context.
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It’s not surprising I didn’t get the reference: there was no slavery on the Ulster plantation. That was about Protestant colonisation. The local Gaelic Catholics were displaced by Scottish and English colonists, not enslaved.

Plantation implies slavery in the US, but not everywhere.

Sure, why not? Again, a distinction without much of a difference when arguing what has and hasn’t been legal in England (proper, since most of North America WAS England/GB for 150 years) for 900 years. Sharecropping and multiple acts of genocide look pretty similar.