We had White slaves in America, too.

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(06-16-2015, 07:21 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Hard to say. I've known about this for quite some time. Most people just don't realize this sort of thing. Africans we enslaved in greater numbers and there was an entire industry based solely on that market, but Irish, and some from other countries as well, were also enslaved in this country.

I think because while the Irish did have a rough go of it for a bit they aren't experiencing the same prejudices in this century that the black community is that we tend to forget how we once treated them.

Yup