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Slavers took people from villages all along the south coast of England, not just Southern Ireland.
Numbers can never be properly known but they’re estimated at between seven and nine thousand.
Crews from merchant ships and fishing boats were taken as well.
https://historyhouse.co.uk/articles/british_slaves.html
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