This article contradicts itself. In the lead paragraph, it states
Those transported unwillingly were not indenturesItalic text. They were political prisoners, vagrants, or people who had been defined as "undesirable" by the English state.[1] Penal transportation of Irish people was at its height during the 17th century, during the Cromwellian conquest and settlement of Ireland (1649–1653).[1] During this period, thousands of Irish people were sent to the Caribbean, or "Barbadosed", against their will.[2] Similar practices continued as late as the Victorian period, with Irish political prisoners sent to imperial British penal colonies in Australia.[3] Indentures and transportees have been conflated, though they were distinct. Italic text
Unfortunately, the article itself then conflates the two, as an example see the description of the accompanying picture of a house mural of the Cromwellian conquests where it states that "Indentured Servitude" was at its height before and after the Cromwell.
I am in 100% agreement that the Irish experience was not comparable to the African American experience and reject those who try to make that argument in an attempt to make suffering a competition. At the same time the Transportation of the Irish against their will and forcibly being required to give their labor to another for being "undesirable" is not indentured servitude (with its benign connotation) either.
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