“Truth matters,” the meme also says. “The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World,” the Facebook page Defending the Heritage wrote.

We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade. But are we talking about African slavery? King James VI and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain's ...

Rating: Unproven (About this rating?) Context: Although Kamala Harris' father has stated that his family lineage traced back to an Irish slave owner in Jamaica named Hamilton Brown, confirming ...

Vice President Kamala Harris may have descended from an infamous Irish slave owner who actively worked against abolition. The presidential hopeful’s paternal great-grandmother, Christiana Brown ...

Jon_theSage - Actually my ancestors were Irish slaves here. We don't still whine about it. We move forward...not backward. This is an important point. Indentured servitude was difficult ...

A new Netflix documentary follows the descendants of survivors of the last recorded vessel to bring slaves to the US, also focusing on the role of Irish-American slave owner Timothy Meagher in the ...