To: high info voter
There are a number of books on white slavery. Read more on the subject and you’ll find out that white slavery was much more brutal than black slavery because there wasn’t an initial investment in the white slave so they were just worked to death and then thrown to the vultures. The average Irish slave lasted about a year on the Caribbean Island sugar plantations.
18 posted on
03/18/2016 5:27:44 AM PDT by
cowboyway
("Give me a beer or two and I'll be fine, at least that's worked every other time....")
To: cowboyway
The New Canal in New Orleans had to be dug though a disease infested swamp. Black slaves, who represented their owners capital, were too valuable to risk. Instead, the Irish were employed, and died by the tens of thousands for a pittance. Bit of doggerel from that time survives: "Ten thousand Micks/They swung their picks/ To dig the New Canal/ But the Coleray was stronger than they/ And twice it killed them all."
23 posted on
03/18/2016 5:41:16 AM PDT by
PUGACHEV
To: cowboyway
***The average Irish slave lasted about a year on the Caribbean Island sugar plantations.***
Somehow the first part of CAPTAIN BLOOD comes to mind.
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