To: 2ndDivisionVet
It’s true. My Irish forebears in the 1800’s were not treated much better than blacks in the Jim Crow South.
Much to our shame though we weren’t much nicer to the Italians when they came along.
To: Buckeye McFrog
There were more Irish slaves overall in the Americas than there were black, IIRC.
8 posted on
07/28/2015 1:12:44 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
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To: Buckeye McFrog
It depended somewhat on where one settled.
My ancestors came in the 1880s and settled in central Kansas.
Mostly Irish and Scotts, although my direct patrilineal line had come from an area northeast of Nepal by way of England.
10 posted on
07/28/2015 1:24:13 PM PDT by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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