Irish land dispossession paralleled African colonial land theft in scale

Evidence

By the mid-eighteenth century Catholics held only seven percent of Irish land. In the twentieth century African residents of various British colonies in Africa have pointed out that in the beginning the white man had the Bible and the Africans had the land; now the Africans have the Bible and the white man has the land. In Ireland, the transfer of the land from native cultivators to foreign conquerors took place on as large a scale as in any African colony, without even the compensation of the Bible (King James version). — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 128

Categorization

• XREF: Direct colonial land-transfer parallel between Ireland and African colonies; ties into the reader’s own body of work on colonial dispossession. — connects to: French colonial dispossession of Algerian land substituted for genocide as a practical option — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 234; The labor theory of property legitimized dispossession of unenclosed hunter-gatherer land — , Second Treatise of Government and A…, 34; Colonial origin theories were used to deny Africans land rights — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 329 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The labor theory of property legitimized dispossession of unenclosed hunter-gatherer land #expands (0.82) — , Second Treatise of Government and A…, 34
• Colonial land appropriation was framed as consent with violence as alternative #expands (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 300
• Settler nations were built on stolen land and enslaved people. #corroborates (0.80) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 763
• French colonial dispossession of Algerian land substituted for genocide as a practical option #exemplifies (0.78) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 234
• Colonial development rhetoric masked systematic resource extraction from native lands. #exemplifies (0.76) — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 78
• Colonial origin theories were used to deny Africans land rights #expands (0.75) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 329
• Defending indigenous sovereignty helped legitimate colonial dispossession #complicates (0.74)
• Extractive theft without basic infrastructure delivery provokes rebellion #qualifies (0.73) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 113