THANK YOU!
There is a great book out called The Oyster Wars. I cannot recall the publisher ... no concern ... anywho, it recounts the bloody hostilities of the mid to late 1700s here in America over that wonderful little bivalve...the Oyster.
One particular chapter was devoted to the story of Irish immigrants being picked up in New York and sent down to the Potomic river (of Maryland and Virginia) with the promise of jobs on the water. Husbands would leave their families "up north" in hopes of returning soon with wages earned on the Oyster boats ... only to be never seen again.
The inlets of the Eastern Shore are to this day littered with countless Islands that were used as jails for the Irish workers. A veritable Irish slave trade that found itself hand-in-hand with the booming multimillion dollar Oyster market.
You won't hear that story in todays public school classrooms.
Hats off to Mr. Sowell for speaking the truth!
Very true...but my daughter will hear about it *our* classroom! Thank you for the information. :o)