My hygienist, very conservative white lady, tells me, today, gramps came from Sicily.
He had been sold into white slavery, as a carusu around 1900, worked in mines in Sicily.
Apparently Booker T Washington talked about it, see Wikipedia.
He came here, escaped I guess, and then worked in mines here, before WWII...had black lung...
Anyway, people whose gramps were slaves, white slaves and black slaves, do not necessarily mix well at all, here, later, either in the 18th Century or right now...trust me.
Almost half the colonists here were originally indentured servants, not black slaves, but pretty damn close to slavery in everything except name, when indentures were often struck for hard labor, and lasted 5 to 7 years, in a place where you often didn't even live that long...
Almost half the colonists here were originally indentured servants, not black slaves, but pretty damn close to slavery in everything except name, when indentures were often struck for hard labor, and lasted 5 to 7 years, in a place where you often didn't even live that long...
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