The Irish Slaves

They came in chains, under horrible conditions, and were sold to others who owned them completely. They were helpless. It sounds like a familiar story, but these people were not African. They were Irish, and they were slaves before African slavery became widespread. This is their story.

• White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
• To Hell or Barbados: The ethnic cleansing of Ireland
• They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America
• The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
• The Story of the Irish Race: A Popular History of Ireland
• Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860
• Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
• The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America
• White Slavery in the Barbary States