Original sentence: Among those not considered white were the East Slavs, as well as Italians, Greeks and other Mediterranean peoples.In the 18th century Irish immigrants had the same rights and privileges as all other European settlers
Edited sentence: " The accompanying caption reads as this quote from Harper’s Weekly in 1899 reads:."The Iberians are believed to have been originally an African race, who thousands of years ago spread themselves through Spain over Western Europe.According to some, in the 18th century Irish immigrants had the same rights and privileges as all other European settlers.Among those not considered white were the Slavs, as well as Italians, Greeks and other Mediterranean peoples.Demonstrating this is an llustration from the influential American magazine Harper's Weekly.It shows an alleged similarity between "Irish Iberian" and "Negro" features in contrast to the higher "Anglo-Teutonic.That is not accurate.The skulls are of low prognathous type.Their remains are found in the barrows, or burying places, in sundry parts of these countries.There were widespread anti-Irish sentiment in the United States.They came to Ireland and mixed with the natives of the South and West, who themselves are supposed to have been of low type and descendants of savages of the Stone Age, who, in consequence of isolation from the rest of the world, had never been out-competed in the healthy struggle of life, and thus made way, according to the laws of nature, for superior races