Seán O'Callaghan, born John Callaghan, (1918-2000)[1] was an Irish journalist and non-fiction author.
Born in Killavullen, County Cork, after service in the Irish Army he moved to England, working as a journalist there and after 1952, as a correspondent in Africa.
In the Caribbean, these people were typically sold to planters to work their sugar estates.
Though technically indentured servants with the right to be released after a term of years, most did not survive long enough to regain freedom due to harsh treatment and an unfamiliarity with tropical conditions.
They accuse O'Callaghan of overstating the harsh conditions faced by Irish indentured servants as well as being an unwitting tool of white supremacists, who try to use the Cromwell era transport and other examples of Irish indentured servitude to down play what African enslaved people suffered.