The white man did not come over and scoop up a bunch and toss them into a
ship. Did you know that the Alba, Scots, Irish have been the longest
race held in slavery. GASP! That’s right, a WHITE race has been enslaved
longer then the African Americans were. ALSO white slavery was alive in
America as well. Thomas Burton recorded in his Parliament Diary
1656-1659 vol. 4 pp. 253-274 a debate in the English Parliament focusing
on the selling of British whites into slavery in the New World. (aka
AMERICA) Close to TWO-THIRDS of the original colony came in against
their will, to be used as slaves. It’s a shame this information will
always remain OUT of the text books in our local schools.The compelling
event that would play a representation in the onto-genesis of
America was the arrival of Africans to Jamestown. A Dutch slave trader
bartered his cargo of Africans for food. They were "Negars from the West
Indies. The year was 1619. These Africans became indentured servants,
comparable in legal disposition to many poor Englishmen who traded
several years labor in exchange for acceptance into America.
Ten slaves were listed in the first census of Jamestown in 1625.
The legend propagated the word slave, and did not appear in Virginia
records until 1656. Statutes defining the status of blacks began to
inadvertently appear in the 1660s. The inference was that blacks called
servants must have the comparable status as white indentured servants.
Following the arrival of these twenty Africans, the face of American
slavery began to change from the "Indianer" to the "Blackamoor" in the
years between 1650 and 1750. Negro indenture, then, was no more than a
legal fiction of brief duration in Virginia. Free Blacks (Yes, there
were blacks who were not slaves. All one has to do is take a look at the
census data) would live in a legal limbo until the general emancipation
in 1864, unable to stand witness in their own defense against the
testimony of any Euro-American.
When white servitude is acknowledged as having existed in America, it is
almost always termed as temporary indentured servitude or part of the
convict trade, which, after the Revolution of 1776, centered on
Australia instead of America. The convicts transported to America under
the 1723 Waltham Act, numbered over 100,000.
The indentured servants who served a period of 4 to 7 years polishing
the master's silver and china, and then taking their place in colonial
high society, were a minuscule fraction of the great unsung hundreds of
thousands of white slaves who had been worked to death in this country
from the early l7th century onward.
One-half of all the arrivals in the American colonies were whites
slaves. They were America's first slaves. These whites were slaves for
life, long before blacks ever were. This type of slavery was even
hereditary. White children born to white slaves were also enslaved.
Whites were auctioned on the block with children sold and separated from
their parents, and wives were sold, detached from their husbands. Free
black property owners walked the streets of northern and southern
American cities while white slaves were worked to death in the sugar
mills of Barbados, Jamaica, and the plantations of Virginia.
The Institution of revisionist history has created the misnomer of
indentured servitude to sweep under the rug, and diminish the fact of
white slavery. However, bound whites in early America did, in fact, call
themselves slaves. Nine-tenths of the white slavery in America was
conducted without indentures of any kind but according to the so-called
"custom of the country," as it was known, which was lifetime slavery
administered by the white slave merchants themselves.
I challenge anyone to study 17th century colonial America, sift through
the documents, the jargon, and the statutes on both sides of the
Atlantic and one will discover that white slavery was a far more
extensive operation than black enslavement. It is when we come to the
18th century that one begins to encounter more "servitude" on the basis
of a contract of indenture. But even then, there were kidnappings of
Anglo-Saxons who were forced into slavery, as well as convict slavery.
Before the British slavers landed on Africa's western coast to buy
slaves from African chiefs, they sold their own white working class
people ("the surplus poor" as they were known) from the streets and
towns of England, into slavery. Tens of thousands of these white were
kidnapped children. In fact the very origination of the word kidnapped
is "kid-nabbed," the stealing of white children for enslavement.
According to the English Dictionary of the Underworld, under the heading
kidnapper is the following definition: A stealer of human beings, esp.
of children; originally for exportation to the plantations of North
America.
The center of the trade in child-slaves was in the port cities of
Britain and Scotland: White slaves transported to the colonies suffered a
staggering loss of life in the 17th and 18th century. During the voyage
to America, it was customary to keep the white slaves below deck for
the entire nine to twelve week journey. A white slave would be confined
to a hole not more than sixteen feet long, chained with 50 other men to a
board, with padlocked collars around their necks. The weeks of
confinement below deck in the ship's stifling hold often resulted in
outbreaks of contagious disease which would sweep through the cargo of
white freight chained in the bowels of the ship.
Ships transporting white slaves to America often lost half them to
death. According to historian Sharon V. Salinger, "Scattered data reveal
that the mortality for (white) servants at certain times equaled that
for (black) slaves in the 'middle passage,' and during other periods
actually exceeded the death rate for (black) slaves." Salinger reports a
death rate of ten to twenty percent over the entire 18th century for
black slaves on board ships enroute to America compared with a death
rate of 25% for white slaves en route to America.
The chronicle of white slavery in America comprises the dustiest shelf
in the darkest corner of suppressed American history, ignored by dusty
minds.
There will only be racial understanding when knowledge of historical
truths are widespread and all can negotiate from positions of strength
and not from fantasies of white working class guilt and the uniqueness
of black suffering - all stemming from historical ignorance, and lack of
research.
Let it be said, in many cases blacks in slavery had it better than poor
whites in the antebellum South. This is why there was such strong
resistance to the Confederacy in the poverty-stricken areas of the
mountain south, such as Winston County in Alabama and the Beech
mountains of North Carolina. Those poor whites could not imagine why any
white laborer would want to die for the slave-owning plutocracy that
more often than not, gave better care and attention to their black
servants than they did to the free white labor they scorned as trash.
To this day, the white ruling class denigrates the white poor and patronizes blacks.
If this seems admirable from the pathological viewpoint of Marxism or
cosmopolitan liberalism, the black and Third World beneficiaries of
white ruling class esteem ought to consider what sort of friends they
actually have.
The Bible declares that the man who does not take care of his own family
is worse than an infidel. This also applies to one's country. The man
who turns his back on his own country, then steals into another for
nefarious means has no love for either.
White, self-hating liberals and greed-head conservatives who claim to
care for the civil rights of black and Third World people, have
discarded the working class of their own on the garbage heap of history.
All one has to do is look around.
