CaltechNerd wrote:
OK, they were indentured servants, not slaves per se. But they were treated like slaves and frequently compared to Africans. I remember seeing a classic broadside showing the profile of an Englishman's face, an Irishman, and an African, the latter two with weirdly distorted features, clearly "proving" they were alike and not at all as civilized as the Englishman.
My friend's mother came to this country from Ireland as a girl. She was as you say and "indentured servant" to a dentist and his family in Philadelphia, Pa. She was never treated badly. But not her own person at that time. That lasted 6 years.