“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 ...

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 ...

In other comments Peri spread false claims that Irish slaves were forcibly bred with enslaved Africans. He also said a “significant” number of free Blacks in the antebellum era owned slaves ...

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 ...

Although Kamala Harris' father has stated that his family lineage traced back to an Irish slave owner in Jamaica named Hamilton Brown, confirming this link has not been possible due to a lack of ...

In other comments, Peri spread false claims that Irish slaves were forcibly bred with enslaved Africans. He also said a "significant" number of free Blacks in the antebellum era owned slaves ...

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