{"id":2239,"date":"2015-08-31T22:33:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T22:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2015-08-31T22:33:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T22:33:42","slug":"bitter-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/bitter-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The island of St. Croix has a Granard, Annally, Longford, Corn Hill, Cartys, Cartys Point, and Madame Cartys placenames. All very quant and interesting until we realise these were some of the slave owners…\""\"<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

A distant isle, where it rarely rains
\nFamilies in a Granard that never burned
\nBar neath the sun, until
\nThe darkness of the day to night turned
\nCooled the sweat upon the brow
\nOf those whose forefathers shackles and chains
\nRattled in the fields in fear of the whip yielded
\nBy those of whose power only the names remains.<\/p>\n

The fields from where my people come
\nLived in fear of the yeomans sword
\nThe flames set by redcoats and Covenanter
\nThe neighbours whispering words.
\nLittle known, less spoken of the darkies
\nDriven by plantation agents from here across the sea
\nDrovers of humanity whip workers to grow the bitter sugar
\nThat I stir here now to sweeten my coffee.<\/p>\n

Article on Longford involvement in the Slave Trade >>><\/a><\/p>\n

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Glossary<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

“darkies” a semi-racist term for coloured people, can be or not depending on the context used in the vernacular today spoken in North Longford.<\/i><\/p>\n

“Covenantor” – puritan and Cromwellian troops that burned Longford to the ground in wars from the 1600 to 1650 period.<\/i><\/p>\n

“neighbours whispering words” informers who often turned in people for money or a grudge.<\/i><\/p>\n

“Drovers” Pauric Colums famous poem of The Drover is invoked to show the way these people thought others were like cattle to be used and abused.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The island of St. Croix has a Granard, Annally, Longford, Corn Hill, Cartys, Cartys Point, and Madame Cartys placenames. All very quant and interesting until we realise these were some of the slave owners… A distant isle, where it rarely rains Families in a Granard that never burned Bar neath …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[446,23,2386],"tags":[2389,2388,2387,2390,2391],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral","category-north-longford","category-slavery","tag-croix","tag-poetry-about-st","tag-st-croix","tag-usvi","tag-virgin-lslands","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-A7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4917,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/harps-of-granard-had-an-echo-far-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":2239,"position":0},"title":"Harps of Granard Had an Echo Far Away","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"10th January 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Airs that filled the Granard air Echo to us this day Fingers danced on the taut strings Of the harps that the harpists play We talk in wonder of the time When our music was nearly lost Yet saved at that festival at that time Yet few know the true\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Lesser Known Ireland"","block_context":{"text":"Lesser Known Ireland","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/lesser-known-ireland\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/The-Hapr-of-Erin-Engraving-19th-century.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2215,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/blaggards-and-blackguards-slavery-civil-rights-the-irish-and-the-longford-connection\/","url_meta":{"origin":2239,"position":1},"title":"Blaggards and Blackguards, Slavery, Civil Rights, the Irish and the Longford Connection","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"20th August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was a child, I collected stamps. 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