Do you deny that many people will use the harsh conditions of indentured workers in some bizarre attempt to mitigate the wrong of slavery?I agree that could be true of both slaves and actual indentured servants (although an indentured servant MUST be paid SOMETHING or it's more akin to slavery) so it's not in and of itself definitive on its own.
For many stretches of time that also applied to irish indentured servants. As noted in some of the material i posted they were frequently tortured, burned and killed without any recourse or consequence.
it was frequently for the irish as well. If an irish IS had a child with a black slave (remembering they were frequently kept in the same lodging) then the child was a slave as well. That was not so automatically with 'regular' white people.
The reason that they are included in the same amendment is that they can easily be functionally the same, and banning one without the other doesn't solve the problem.
The simple reality is that for large hunks of time and for many irish IS's the difference in practical terms was non existent. It would be like saying that the blacks who worked at farmer A's plantation weren't REAL slaves while the ones at farmer B's were - because farmer A would let the slaves buy their own freedom someday if they could save enough money. It wouldn't be an accurate statement. Both were slaves despite there being slight differences in the terms of their slavery.
I do concede that not all Indentured people were treated as or could be considered slaves, but many were and should be. And i feel that this sense out there that recognizing this horrid injustice somehow takes away from the horrid injustice of black slavery or that one has to be worse than the other is simply faulty thinking. Two things can be true at once. black slavery was horrible and irish slavery was horrible.
Here's another one. Did you know that there are still countries that have indenture, but slavery is one of the five violations of the jus cogens norms of customary international law, which means, among other things, that any jurisdiction that catches a slaver can try and punish him without the usual jurisdictional requirements?