https://www.irishcentral.com/news/8000-irish-died-while-building-the-new-basin-canal-in-new-orleans-231020191-237786681
At this moment, I can see where that canal once existed.
In an hour, I will be down where sugar cane plantations once existed.
Both were bacj breaking work and the yellow fever and malaria did not give a damn what color you were.