"Many of them were transported to North America against their will, and many of them were sold for profit" yes an estimated 55k were in penal servitude..
At the end of the day the this thread "Irish lives matter" and the facebook memes with disinformation is designed to say the Irish had it as bad as Africans in the USA to try and detract from the BLM movement and trivialize African slaving in the USA.
Anyone that argues there is an equivalence in treatment is only kidding themselves..
