“Actually, Chinese building the railroads were treated as slaves and shot if they tried to escape. The Irish were also slaves at one time.”
Chinese were never slaves in the US.
Irish were sold in to slavery early on, not in what became the US.
There’s no upside of trying to equate what was done to Africans vis-a-vis slavery and other groups, because it’s not true there’s any equivalency or even similarity.
It’s just weird.
Other than being forced to live in squalor and poverty and eat sh!t by the side of the road. There must be some way of agreeing on something. The rich treated the poor poorly. The New Englanders had their slaves until they realized they could accomplish the same with indentures and company store credits. How much difference between a serf and a slave?
“Chinese were never slaves in the US.”
Yet, if they tried to escape from the RR, the Pinkertons hunted them down like animals