You are equating slavery and indentured servitude. Those POWs were sold for set periods of time, mostly 6 or 7 years. Some even feature as taxpayers in the local communities once their terms were served. I wouldn't want to be an indentured servant either, but it's not at all the same thing as being an African participant in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The two states were legally distinct. For anyone who might see this and decide they'd like to start reading about that: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/us/irish-slaves-myth.html It's particularly relevant for some people living in Burnley, who are our next opponents at this game of football in which we all take such interest. Burnley.
The opening of Gary Jacob's match report from Leicester in the Times goes like this: Of the many things that have changed since the break from football, the rise of one Watford winger and fall of another are not among them. Ismaila Sarr showed on Saturday against Leicester City why he could be a huge factor in keeping Watford in the top flight, while Roberto Pereyra seemed to be living off distant purple patches. So we can't accuse the mainstream media of being entirely ignorant to the workings of our team, at least.
One thing's for sure is that after that banner Deeney well be extra motivated. I'll give it 10 minutes until he gets sent off.
Despite the fact it appears to scientists to be physically impossible, Dyche's voice is believed to coat metal in zinc if he gets close enough.
Lets compare. 1680's Monmouth rebellion POWs. Sent in chains to the ships, packed into a hold with hundreds of other prisoners, if you die you're chucked overboard without ceremony, when you get to where you're going you spend the next 10 years in hard labour under a whip. If you survive that, and the odds are poor, you will be set free. Yes African slavery was different as you say. African slaves didn't get freedom if they survived 10 years.
The ex scummer who had Pereyra in his pocket on Saturday is getting ripped apart by some youngster from Brighton.
It was also different because indentured servants, whilst working physical jobs that were long and hard and facing some potential punishment for breaking rules, were literally protected by several laws that governed the way they could be treated; as we well know, that was not the case for black African slaves in anything like the same way. Burnley.
It's going to be close to 30 degrees when we play. How the hell do you play with any intensity in that sort of heat ? A 0-0 draw played at walking pace ? Presumably a set piece goal is more likely which doesn't play to our strengths ?
On the plus side, Burnley might not be able to get their pressing game going, and maybe it won't be a case of Sarr skinning the full back every time
Will Burnley's all-white squad be able to cope in these conditions? Not sure how they're gomna make it through the summer!
