"...incredulous that no Irish white "redlegs" are in the photo or named as such. We know from primary source materials that white slaves worked alongside blacks in the West Indies and that the word "redneck" was applied to them by their darker coworkers because of the tendency of the white slaves to sunburn. Whether or not their descendants stayed on the island to..."
http://takimag.com/article/white_slavery_denial_jim_goad#axzz49pPrxYRF
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