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Quartersawnwhiteoak2 19 points ago +19 / -0

You left out the white children, and Irish.

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Seanp12 12 points ago +13 / -1

Indentured servitude was done by English people to Irish people, which is part of why indentitarians keep lumping them together in a big white blob. You can't complain about white indentured servitude if whites did it to other whites. But that's because "white" is not a race, it's a color. For the same reasons, people like to ignore that Hutus murdered Tutsis in the Rwandan Genocide, in spite of both being part of the "black race." The Hutus certainly didn't consider the Tutsis to be the same as them, just as the English didn't consider the Irish as equals.

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Quartersawnwhiteoak2 5 points ago +5 / -0

The well to do in Ireland sold their people like livestock. That's irrelevant because it was white, on white. The feds did not pass child labor law until 1938. That includes all colors. What demographic was the vast majority of those kids, and would their working conditions be better, worse, or the same as slaves

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stratocaster_patriot 3 points ago +3 / -0

True but indentured servitude is not slavery. There were literally white slaves.

One example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing

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Quartersawnwhiteoak2 1 point ago +1 / -0

I am am German Irish, and the English know better now don't they.

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Quartersawnwhiteoak2 1 point ago +1 / -0

Check out sewing factories, and injuries. Look at the ages of those kids.