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swirlie For quite a long time many, many Scottish and Irish, mainly convicts and debtors, were brought over to the colonies, and later the southern states, as "indentured servants", essentially slaves to work out their debts and sentences. They were told they had to work on average of seven years to work them off, however their "employers" would always find imposed infractions to lengthen their "services", which happened with my Great Grandmother's Great Grandparents, all of who were on the same Georgia plantation, and unlike the African slaves, the Irish and Scottish were not emancipated, it wasn't until the early 20th century that "indentured servitude" was ended. These particular facts will never be found in any history book.
