The Proof There Were Irish Slaves in 1700, or Indentured Slavery Is Still Slavery

This quote should end the debate about whether the Irish were slaves in the Americas:

“The character of an Irishman… He’s..a Valluable Slave in our Western Plantations, where they are distinguish’d by the Ignominious Epithet of White Negroes.” — E. Ward, London Spy, 1700

Despite the evidence, the internet is filled with articles like Liam Hogan’s NO, THE IRISH WERE NOT SLAVES TOO which police which forms of forced labor may be called slavery. Hogan’s own words should confirm that indentured servitude is more accurately called indentured slavery. He admits,

…just after the brutal Cromwellian conquest of Ireland … there were orders given in multiple counties to round up and deport those who, it was claimed, could not support themselves.

Indentured servitude was more insidious than simply a case of labor exploitation. A four- to seven-year indenture to serve out, bond servants lives’ and movements were subject to control and dominance by their masters’ even outside of work hours, with punitive restrictions placed on marriage, locomotion, and pregnancy.

Were the Irish Slaves in America, Too? points out the semantic argument:

That thousands of Irish people were carried across the sea…