This included questioning the idea introduced by Jenny Shaw, of how servants and slaves worked together in harmony. This instead implies that the relationship was not as symbiotic as presented and that there was more motivation for selfishness in terms of pursuing one's own interests rather than those of the village working community. Eventually, the Irish would become future landowners and slaves; the slaves, once given a higher position, would punish the Irish servants. It may not have been as happy a family as Jenny Shaw makes it out to be