re: #293 HappyWarrior

No, they weren’t. Irish Americans were treated poorly but nowhere near as bad as African-Americans.

IIRC, Irish orphans and the like were kidnapped off the streets of Ireland to send to the sugar plantations in the Caribbean (not the US.) They were treated abominably-just like the African slaves. No better, no worse, although they probably died in slightly higher numbers due to a lack of resistance to tropical diseases.