Irish Slaves

We all know the story.  People violently taken from their homeland, separated from their families, crammed into ships, forced to endure a voyage across the Atlantic under horrifying conditions, sold into involuntary servitude in an unfamiliar land, treated like beasts of burden, and cruelly punished for the slightest offense.  Yes, we have learned about the slave trade and slavery being inflicted upon countless people from Africa.  It is all well and good that we study this history.

But sometimes, the enslaved were not Africans.  As told by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh in their book White Cargo, about 300,000 slaves were taken by the British from Ireland.  To learn more, read the book review by John Martin at Global Research.