Its very sad this topic is still dominated by racism and i find the topic loaded with semantics. For example what is referred to as the ongoing “slavery” of today isn’t typically the chattel slavery known in the America, fare enough, there were different laws in place. But the truth is many unfortunate poor people…

Im writing a book now that deals w the issue of slavery in America and I find the issue of Jim Crow racism in many ways worse than slavery itself, that said I don’t really find the issue of Irish servitude as trying to diminish the horrors of the African slave trade. Sure over time the Irish were assimilated and the…