That’s BS. Irish were not slaves in America that were brought here against their will, and could be bought and sold. They came here often on signed work contracts 5 to 7 years.
And no... that is not a photo from 1860. Matthew Brady wasn’t out there posing kids. Try 1930s, and a people would go out after the mechanical harvest and collect bags full.... they would get paid 10 cents a pound +/-. You took all the kids.
My family did it...
There were probably a few Irish slaves brought here against their will before the early 17th century. In other words, before blacks captured other blacks and sold them into slavery in droves making black slaves cheaper than other slaves. Until that point in time 4 centuries ago, as Thomas Sowell teaches, almost all slaves around the world were the same race as his master. At least race as we define it today (lumping all whites into one white race, all eastern Asians into one race, etc.).
But those pre-black slaves, including Irish, were nothing as numerous as the slaves after blacks became cheap slaves.
I was born in 1970. My grandmother share cropped tomatoes and strawberries while she was the personal assistant to the president of Aetna insurance in Indianapolis. On the weekends we all looked like this. Best times and if we wore our school clothes, well you know.