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![_HistoryNerd Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1518284153661186048.png) History Nerd [@_HistoryNerd](/creator/twitter/_HistoryNerd) on x 237.1K followers
Created: 2025-05-11 20:23:36 UTC

The first slaves in America weren’t African, they were Irish.

Men, women, and children were sold, starved, and worked to death.

Their suffering was buried for centuries.

Here’s the dark & forgotten truth about Ireland’s hidden history of slavery:

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