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And they're not the only ones whose ancestors were slaves on southern American plantations. My Irish ancestors (Jacobites) were slaves on plantation in North Carolina, after they were sent there by the English, after the battle of Cullendan in Scotland in 1746. Thousands of whites (Scots, Irish, and French) were sent, and lived out their lives in slavery.
Yeah ... But white slaves weren't even worth talking about.
Most of the time it is chalked up to indentured servitude ... But that wasn't always the case.
The book White Cargo ~ by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh ... Examines abuses within indentured servitude and other white slavery.
Most people don't know where the word kidnapped comes from ... They aren't familiar with children being snatched off the streets in England and shipped to the States.
But one slavery isn't an excuse for another ... And I don't see where dwelling on it serves much use now.
We just don't need to repeat the mistakes we made before.
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But indentured servitude was not slavery and Irish were never slaves.
https://pictorial.jezebel.com/lets-squash-the-myth-that-the-irish-were-ever-american-1765491798
‘Irish slaves’: the convenient myth
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