To: avacado
Not all indentured servants were Irish. I have an indentured servant ancestor from Switzerland. Selling yourself into a term of servitude was a way of paying for your passage.
21 posted on
06/10/2007 9:09:24 AM PDT by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
You are right. But the majority were Irish and they were in the penitentiary system in England and the English were basically dumping their prisoners off to America as indentured servants (slaves).
Once America started getting black slaves, the English started dumping their prisoners off to Australia.
See: John Hughes - The Fatal Shore, The Epic Founding of Australia.
23 posted on
06/10/2007 9:22:28 AM PDT by
avacado
To: SWAMPSNIPER; cardinal4
My great-grandmother was brought from Ireland to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to be an indentured servant to a prod family in about 1875. I want my reparations, and I want them NOW.
38 posted on
06/12/2007 5:48:54 PM PDT by
Ax
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