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I'm black American and I knew from grade school that whites were sent to America as indentured slaves. But your presentation really helped me to better understand how the term "indentured slave" was just sugar coating
the fact that the Irish were slaves and if they had a contract, it could be
easily sold to the next slave owner. Due to slave rebellions, it made since to disallow the enslavement of white people at some point, so that the slave owners would not be out numbered. Wealth and greed ruled back than and
it still rules today.
This is an excellent, clear-eyed examination of Irish "forced-relocation"
or slavery. Too often the question of Irish slavery has been swept under
the rug or dismissed as only indentured servitude. As you pointed out,
at least some of the contracts would still exist if this was the case. The contract of my English ancestor Thomas Mudd who came over to Maryland, still exists.
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