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White Irish slaves built the dykes in New Orleans. Black slaves who were worked too hard complained they were being treated as the Irish.

Slavers at one time traveled the countryside in the UK kidnapping kids to sell as slaves. Their treatment and survival rate on slave ships was worse than the slaves from Africa. Most kids did not survive the trip.

Barbary Coast moslem pirates ranged the western coast of Africa and north to western Europe raiding and pillaging and taking slaves long before the slave trade to the Americas from Africa.