Tuesday, February 21, 2023

America’s Buried History of White Slavery

By R.C.
sun, feb 19, 2023 11:18 p.m.

EN — LARRY ROMANOFF — America's Buried History of White Slavery



He must be speaking about my Irish Catholic ancestors.

Say, are there any programs, quotas, initiatives or set-asides for folks like me?

Asking for my late Irish Catholic alcoholic grandmother.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

" In fact, their indentures most often amounted to a life sentence at hard labor, and with a life that would be preciously short when we look at the hideous mortality rates."

Correct. Given life expectancy at the time, not a whole lot of indentured might survive the process until their contract expired.

Anonymous said...

One aspect of the contracts that the indentured would sign what is the agreement between themselves and the master is that how many times per week they would be fed Atlantic salmon that gives you an idea of how bad it must’ve been not