Foetwin, I can assure you, whover brought potato's to ireland WERE NOT the Irish. If anyone its the English (I need to research this tho, but I know its not the Irish)
The whole "potato famine" would not have been a problem if it wasn't for the fact that the English took over all of the Irish's land and crops, and was exporting all of the food from Ireland to the rest of Europe. The Irish were forced to depend on potato's, and when those went bad, the English continued to ship OUT Irelands food supply. So as a result MILLIONS died, and millions were forced to flee.
many Irish immigrants came to America as indentured servants and contracted work to richer whites from England. Many in the South became overseers over the field slaves on plantations.
ROFL, obviously you don't know your Irish history. When the Irish first came, they were forced to work on mesquito infested swamps because most people would not hire them. They were on SLAVE LEVEL aside from being free. Their living conditions were horrible and many died...
I am unaware of the social status of the Irish in England during the time of slavery, but in America they enjoyed some of the same privilages as other "whites."
here's one link:
http://dekalb.dc.peachnet.edu/~yliu/classes/hist/slavery.html
^^sounds like it was written by an african american, so obviosly he wasn't quick to put it on the level of africans slavery. This is once in america tho, Irish suffered more in England...
I had some others few I got from HERESY in one topic but I lost all my bookmarks :/
Blacks are NOT the only ones to suffer in our history. Keep thinkin all us whites are rich living comfortably with no problems and no suffering if ya want, its not reality...