Ireland as the British's main source of Slaves

The points about malaria and the tropics are well taken, so how about giving the British somewhere that wouldn't be as big of a problem. British North Africa? If you combine Irish indentured servitude and some later convict transportation, you'll get some really interesting social issues / demographics.

I do seem to recall that some shipped Mosstroopers (guerillas and bandits resisting Cromwell in Scotland from 1653) ended up in Maine...

Many would maintain it was! It was definitely a invaluable source of cheap labour post Republic of Ireland independence for them!

The exclamation mark would like a rest.

MacAlpine's Fusiliers didn't have soft jobs, but a really rather important element of slavery was missing: coercion. People came over looking for jobs, compelled by nothing but economic circumstance.
 
It's a reflection of the menial rubbish type jobs irish people were forced by economic circumstances to do, NINA signs were very familiar sights to Irish people in the UK upto and including the 1970s! Irish people on both sides of the island of Ireland have quite low life expectancies relative to other Western nations!
 
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