Christian Science Monitor: No, the Irish were not slaves in the Americas

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6. I actually had a white in-law post on Facebook about how when she was a kid she picked cotton.

She was suggesting that it was the equivalent of slavery, so what's the big deal. Of course, my in-law got paid for picking cotton, was not owned by her employer, she could leave any time, was not whipped and kept in a dirt floor shed, and at the end of the summer season, she went back to school, and didn't get raped and impregnated by her employer to create more cotton pickers for her employer, nor were her parents sold off by her employer, nor were her husband and kids. But other than that, yeah, just like slavery.