BLM apologists will claim that Irish slaves in the Americas were not slaves but indentured servants, which is technically true, but so were the first black slaves, a fact that they conveniently overlook. Chattel slavery did not exist as such in British Common Law, so the first African slaves were also classed as indentured servants. The conditions for both black and white slaves were identical. Both black and white were captured and taken from their homelands by violence. Both were forced into total servitude without the rights under law of a freeman, and were expected to obey in all things. The punishment for disobedience and escape attempts were equal, death in the case of escape, and finally, the period of indenture, two decades, for most people was well beyond their life expectancy. The claim that whites were not really slaves is a mendacious lie.