Great article it has motivated me to write my first post on steem .
While reserching the james martin credit you gave .my search results came back with many irish slaves sold to Australia.i see were they are coming from ,but most of the irish came as convicts but wernt housed in a prison but used to work farms and do labour for the new colany ,so in a sense they were slave labour not slaves once there sentence was done they were free .granted there life was unbelievably inhumane they were flogged and the people they worked for were called there masters.but they did have rights and could complain to a magistrate
What i did not no while researching your artical was the amont of political prisoners that were exported to Australia ,from England herself and from the many irish uprisings at the time as well as the scotts and incredibly a Canadian incedent now i no why Australia has such an incredibly strong labour Union movment .So my first article will be about things i did not no about my country stay tuned this might take a while i work days lol
Cheers thanks for the read