Irish Slave History

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The Irish Slaves’ have been forgotten about in history. Most of the irish-american people or people that have irish in them have probably came here from the irish slave trade. Most people have forgot about this because most people want to think that it was only the African-American that came here from the slave trade part of time in history. The Irish Slave Trade is a hard part of slavery history because, of the fact that many people have irish in them, and people really don’t like to think about that fact. In the Irish Slave Trade is was beyond horrible. The African Slaves was worth more so, with being a Irish slave you was cheaper to buy. In this one decade Irish population went from 160,000 to 60,000. Many of the african slaves made it back

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