[marktwain]

In the early days, there was little difference in the way black and white servants were treated.

Many Irish were sold into slavery in Jamaica.

It wasn't until quite a few years latter that the strong color lines were drawn.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Please stop the Irish lies.

[Wallace T.]

English, Scottish, and Irish indentured servants were often treated worse than African slaves, in whom the masters had more substantial investments. Not only political prisoners like the Scottish Jacobites but indebted individuals from all over the British Isles were consigned to slavery in the colonies. A good information source on the enslavement of white British subjects is the book, They Were White and They Were Slaves by Michael Hoffman.