IRISH SLAVES 7

ENGLAND'S IRISH SLAVES by Robert E. West PEC Illinois State Director* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Records are replete with references to early Irish Catholics in the West Indies. Gwynn in Analecta Hibernica, states: 'The earliest reference to the Irish is the establishment of an Irish settlement on the Amazon River in 1612." Smith, in Colonists in Bondage, reports: "a Proclamation of the year 1625 urged the banishing overseas of dangerous rogues (Irish Political Prisoners); kidnapping (of Irish) was common."https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/englands-irish-slaves-10927