“Irish”
The English still owe me reparations for sending my Scots ancestors to Georgia and Botany Bay/sarc
"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)"
My Scotch-Irish ancestors were hustled off the boat, through dark alleys, out of town into the wilderness and not allowed to stop until they reached Kentucky.