Exploitation of people is evil. But just for clarification, indentured servitude and slavery are not the same thing. A person is physically forced into the latter state against their will, whereas indentured servitude is ultimately voluntary, albeit if pressured. Though American slave owners perfected the system of race based chattel slavery in the first few decades of the 1800s, the sad reality is that nearly all civilizations in all times and all places, practiced slavery. The largest slave system, relative to the world's population at the time, would have been that run by Islamic Arabs, through conquest in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Even in the western hemisphere, the vast majority of African slaves brought over the Atlanic, ended up in the Caribbean, Central and South America, and NOT in North America, what would become the United States. However, once we banned the importation of slaves (Jefferson signed the act into law the first year permitted under the Constitution), masters figured out it was far more efficient to breed slaves than import, since of course, the plantation powers ensured that chattel slavery remain and prevent emancipation laws from being passed.

My Irish ancestors got screwed, as did my German and Dutch ancestors. But they weren't enslaved.

Be careful not to stoop to using leftist tactics of twisting facts and redefining terms to support exaggerated or outright false narratives