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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.