Actually the Irish were at times treated worst than slaves. The area of the U.S. with slavery used low-paid Irish workers where there was a danger of death of injury. The slave owners were not about to sacrifice their "property"; to wit,
"Above all, the planters regarded the slaves as investments, into which they had sunk nearly $2 billion of their capital by 1860; slaves were the primary form of wealth in the South and as such they were cared for as any asset is cared for by a prudent capitalist Accordingly, [slaves] were sometimes spared dangerous work and if a neck was going to be broken, the master preferred it to be that of a wage-earning Irish laborer rather than that of a prime field hand, worth $1,800 by 1860 (price had quintupled since 1800)"
Here is what many consider the best ever Star Spangled Banner. Sandi Patty - The Star Spangled Banner
Grab a copy before the goo-, goo- google boys delete it and all such "offensive material."
That's when it hits the fan.
Citizens past by the millions defended our free speech against enemies with blood we will do the same.. we will defend our free speech against enemies with blood..
our free speech, their blood.