Nah, see all these cartoons of them as apes and especially the racist tracts specifically pointing out they're black with the "evidence" of their allegedly totally "African" traits of skull shapes and such (besides their "dark" skin colour which was especially ridicalous).
The "Irish ape" thing in particular was relevant as they weren't considered even fully human.
Speaking of which, https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b4/52/c9/b452c94791e88fe965a30e0441de9f75.jpg
That smug looking son of a bitch... It mocks me.
This feels like something I would see from 4chan... in 1838.
https://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WildBeast-hires.png is eerily like the El Goblino meme.
White niggers is what they were called, barely white.
Nah, see all these cartoons of them as apes and especially the racist tracts specifically pointing out they're black with the "evidence" of their allegedly totally "African" traits of skull shapes and such (besides their "dark" skin colour which was especially ridicalous).