Being a slave meant you got the easiest and less risky jobs and got food and shelter year round; being poor and white meant you starved and froze to death in winters and just buried where you dropped dead building the levees along the river or clearing the swamps, according to Fredrick Law Omstead, the famous architect and abolitionist, in his travel diary through the South. The Irish got the dangerous shitty jobs on the docks and cotton boats, often literally having their backs broken by the heavy cotton bales. Slaves were given the easy jobs there too. 10's of thousands of German and Irish laborers bodies in those levees.
What's wrong with you that you don't know any real history and just parrot fake narratives? You claim to be educated, yet you exhibit no evidence of it.
One study, based on New Orleans, on the relative status of poor whites in the early19th century, for the Peanut Gallery:
... and as already mentioned Omstead's diary of his trip through the South and into Texas also sheds light.
Contrast those with such fake history as this piece, which of course entirely misrepresents who built the levees, an example how Woke academics refuse to tell the real stories, claiming 'slaves did all the work', which is patently ridiculous, given the price of slaves and the massive immigration of desperate white poor from Ireland and Europe before the Civil War.
Looking at real history, black people need to be paying reparations to the Irish and Germans.