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Irish Catholics partly avoided slave ownership from immigrating to American too late, as you said, and also settling in more urban regions. It took a lot of money to be a slave owner and it was a fairly elite position even among Protestant Americans. To the degree that Irish Americans did farming, it was mostly ranching without slave labor. We even had an Irish Catholic cattle ranching community near where I grew up that dates back to the 1870s and the Catholic church they built is the oldest in the county.
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