Some of whom may have seen themselves as having little choice - essentially
economic refugees. Irish, Scots dispossessed by enclosures, European Jews. It's
a grey area, but in many cases, choice was moot.
Yes, I'm in another immigrant nation with a small rump of indigenes - but
despite the jokes, convicts were a very small contribution. And there were
slaves - Kanakas.
These arguments are never just black and white (pun alert).
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Author/Publisher:
The SLR Compendium,The TLR Compendium
http://www.soultheft.com/storehouse_photopublish/
On 12/06/2014, at 11:48 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> The vast majority of White Americans are descended from the huge
> number of European immigrants who came to the USA in the period from 1830
> to 1920. I mentioned that to some of my Black students, who found it
> interesting in light of the racist attitudes that some Whites here have
> toward them.
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