Actually this is
an eye opener. I had already come to the
conclusion that the whole issue of slavery had been grossly under reported for
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in North America but had accepted the obvious
canard of a civilized system of indenture servitude as a form of currency
before the advent of fiat currency inflated that natural store of wealth away.
Just as
obviously, a legal contract system will only spring up if the market already
exists in the first instance and the need for formal contract arises.
Manpower was
desperately needed on the large plantations and farms been set up close by the
new ports along the Atlantic coast. In
Europe surplus population was leaving serfdom and entering the towns and cities
in attempts to create a lifeway. These
poor were easily seized and shipped as effective serfs or slaves and placed on
a ship going anyway to bring back cargoes to Europe.
It strikes me
that a foundational cause of the French Revolution may be that France’s earlier
defeat in the Seven Years War and loss of their major colonies, cut off an exit
channel for the growing hungry unemployed.
So while we
imagine colonists willfully embarking on the one way trip to North America,
realistically there were scant paying passengers ever available. Thus it made total sense to press a cargo as
well as a crew.
That same
economic system, barbarous as it was also informs us of just why Indian
populations on the east coast collapsed.
As I posted before, the male Indians brought in to the ports could
easily be placed on a ship headed for the Bahamas and the plantations there
with zero hope of escape, while female Indian slaves could be kept to work on
the local plantations in the company of white male slaves.
Thus normal
interbreeding in a dominant white population would actually disappear Indian
racial features inside of two generations.
Thus we may talk of populations dying out when they did nothing of the
sort. Nasty epidemics did take place,
but the effects were largely felt in the sixteenth century and populations,
while suffering losses, remained quite sustainable. The real epidemic was the racial absorption
through the application of slavery that I just described.
No one wants to
believe that is what happened but in fact it conforms to the facts on the
ground. This conjecture will take plenty
of work but DNA may well help a little but not a lot and documentary sources
from eyewitness are too often not committing to paper the bald reality.
WHITE
Slaves of BLACK Masters Tell Their Story
Whites slaves tell
their own story in their own words about how they were shanghaied and taken
back to North Africa as slaves. Over 2 million whites are reported to have been
taken as slaves after being shanghaied by Moors known as Barbary Coast
pirates or Riff Pirates or Barbary Corsairs.
This video deals with
simple and well documented TRUTH that has been purposely kept from you. We will
discuss the over two million white people who were taken back to various parts
of North Africa as slaves to their Muslim black Moorish, Arab masters. The majority
were captured by Barbary pirates also known as Barbary Corsairs and Riff
pirates. We also discuss a famous statue called “The Four Moors” which depicts
King Ferdinand de’ Medecini standing over four shackled ‘Moors” (black of
course) in celebration over his eventual victory over the black corsairs who’d
terrorized the coastal areas on their pirate raids. It’s a historical fact that
over 2000 ships were captured and shanghaied and the white passengers were
taken to Morocco and other parts of North Africa as slaves.
We also discuss Moulay Ismail who has been
called by some “the greatest sultan that Morocco ever had” although he was
undeniably a tyrant. We also discuss his infamous “Black Guard” (so called
because they were black) which is reported to have grown to as much as
1,500,000 in strength and was the largest and most feared army there.
One Of the white
slaves writes in great detail about his experiences with the feared Black Guard
who also were the slave drivers of the white captives.
Click here to read about the book ”White
Gold”
The
Forgotten Slaves: Whites in Slaves in Early America and Industrial Britain
Two years ago, Prime
Minister Paul Keating of Australia refused to show “proper respect” to
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II during her state visit. In response, Terry Dicks,
a Conservative member of the British Parliament said, “It’s a country of
ex-convicts, so we should not be surprised by the rudeness of their prime
minister.”
A slur such as this would be considered
unthinkable if it were uttered against any other class or race of people except
the descendants of White slavery. Dicks’ remark is not only offensive, it is
ignorant and false. Most of Australia’s “convicts” were shipped into servitude
for such “crimes” as stealing seven yards of lace, cutting trees on an
aristocrat’s estate or poaching sheep to feed a starving family.
The arrogant disregard
for the holocaust visited upon the poor and working class Whites of Britain by
the aristocracy continues in our time because the history of that epoch has
been almost completely extirpated from our collective memory.
When White slavery 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, perhaps numbered 100,000.
The indentured servants who served a tidy
little 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 were worked to death in
this country from the early l7th century onward.
Up to one-half of all the arrivals in the
American colonies were Whites slaves and they were America’s first slaves. These
Whites were slaves for life, long before Blacks ever were. This slavery was
even hereditary. White children born to White slaves were enslaved too.
Whites were auctioned on the block with
children sold and separated from their parents and wives sold and separated
from their husbands. Free Black property owners strutted the streets of
northern and southern American cities while White slaves were worked to death
in the sugar mills of Barbados and Jamaica and the plantations of Virginia.
The Establishment has created the misnomer of
“indentured servitude” to explain away and minimize the fact of White slavery.
But bound Whites in early America called 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.
In George Sandys laws for Virginia, Whites
were enslaved “forever.” The service of Whites bound to Berkeley’s Hundred was
deemed “perpetual.” These accounts have been policed out of the much touted
“standard reference works” such as Abbott Emerson Smith’s laughable whitewash,
Colonists in Bondage.
I challenge any researcher
to study 17th century colonial America, sifting 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 in that
period there was kidnapping of Anglo-Saxons into slavery as well as convict
slavery.
In 1855, Frederic Law Olmsted,
the landscape architect who designed New York’s Central Park, was in
Alabama on a pleasure trip and saw bales of cotton being thrown from a
considerable height into a cargo ship’s hold. The men tossing the bales
somewhat recklessly into the hold were Negroes, the men in the hold were Irish.
Olmsted inquired about this to a shipworker.
“Oh,” said the worker, “the niggers are worth too much to be risked here; if
the Paddies are knocked overboard or get their backs broke, nobody loses
anything.”
Before British slavers traveled to Africa’s
western coast to buy Black slaves from African chieftains, they sold their own
White working class kindred (“the surplus poor” as they were known) from the
streets and towns of England, into slavery. Tens of thousands of
these White slaves were kidnapped children. In fact the very origin 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:
“Press gangs in the hire of local merchants
roamed the streets, seizing ‘by force such boys as seemed proper subjects for
the slave trade.’ Children were driven in flocks through the town and confined
for shipment in barns…So flagrant was the practice that people in the
countryside about Aberdeen avoided bringing children into the city for fear
they might be stolen; and so widespread was the collusion of merchants,
shippers, suppliers and even magistrates that the man who exposed it was forced
to recant and run out of town.” (Van der Zee, Bound Over, p. 210).
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 carrying White slaves to America often
lost half their slaves 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 enroute to America.
Foster R. Dulles writing in Labor in America:
A History, states that whether convicts, children ‘spirited’ from the
countryside or political prisoners, White slaves “experienced discomforts and
sufferings on their voyage across the Atlantic that paralleled the cruel
hardships undergone by negro slaves on the notorious Middle Passage.”
Dulles says the Whites were “indiscriminately
herded aboard the ‘white guineamen,’ often as many as 300 passengers on little
vessels of not more than 200 tons burden–overcrowded, unsanitary…The mortality
rate was sometimes as high as 50% and young children seldom survived the
horrors of a voyage which might last anywhere from seven to twelve weeks.”
Independent investigator A.B. Ellis in the
Argosy writes concerning the transport of White slaves, “The human cargo, many
of whom were still tormented by unhealed wounds, could not all lie down at once
without lying on each other. They were never suffered to go on deck. The
hatchway was constantly watched by sentinels armed with hangers and blunder
busses. In the dungeons below all was darkness, stench, lamentation, disease
and death.”
Marcus Jernegan describes the greed of the
shipmasters which led to horrendous loss of life for White slaves transported
to America:
“The voyage over often repeated the horrors of
the famous ‘middle passage’ of slavery fame. An average cargo was three
hundred, but the shipmaster, for greater profit, would sometimes crowd as many
as six hundred into a small vessel…The mortality under such circumstances was
tremendous, sometimes more than half…Mittelberger (an eyewitness) says he saw
thirty-two children thrown into the ocean during one voyage.”
“The mercantile firms, as importers of (White)
servants, were not too careful about their treatment, as the more important
purpose of the transaction was to get ships over to South Carolina which could
carry local produce back to Europe. Consequently the Irish–as well as
others–suffered greatly…
“It was almost as if the British merchants had
redirected their vessels from the African coast to the Irish coast, with the
white servants coming over in much the same fashion as the African slaves.”
(Warren B. Smith, White Servitude in Colonial South Carolina).
A study of the middle passage of White slaves
was included in a Parliamentary Petition of 1659. It reported that White slaves
were locked below deck for two weeks while the slaveship was still in port.
Once under way, they were “all the way locked up under decks…amongst horses.”
They were chained from their legs to their necks.
Those academics who insist that slavery is an
exclusively Black racial condition forget or deliberately omit the fact that
the word slave originally was a reference to Whites of East European origin –
“Slavs.”
Moreover, in the 18th century in Britain and
America, the Industrial Revolution spawned the factory system whose first
laborers were miserably oppressed White children as young as six years of age.
They were locked in the factories for sixteen hours a day and mangled by the
primitive machinery. Hands and arms were regularly ripped to pieces. Little
girls often had their hair caught in the machinery and were scalped from their
foreheads to the back of their necks.
White Children wounded and crippled in the
factories were turned out without compensation of any kind and left to die of
their injuries. Children late to work or who fell asleep were beaten with iron
bars. Lest we imagine these horrors were limited to only the early years of the
Industrial Revolution, eight and ten year old White children throughout America
were hard at work in miserable factories and mines as late as 1920.
Because of the rank prostitution, stupidity
and cowardice of America’s teachers and educational system, White youth are
taught that Black slaves, Mexican peons and Chinese coolies built this country
while the vast majority of the Whites lorded it over them with a lash in one
hand and a mint julep in the other.
The documentary record tells a very different
story, however. When White Congressman David Wilmot authored the Wilmot Proviso
to keep Black slaves out of the American West he did so, he said, to preserve
that vast expanse of territory for “the sons of toil, my own race and color.”
This is precisely what most White people in
America were, “sons of toil,” performing backbreaking labor such as few of us
today can envision. They had no paternalistic welfare system; no Freedman’s
Bureau to coo sweet platitudes to them; no army of bleeding hearts to worry
over their hardships. These Whites were the expendable frontline soldiers in
the expansion of the American frontier. They won the country, felled the trees,
cleared and planted the land.
The wealthy, educated White elite in America
are the sick heirs of what Charles Dickens in Bleak House termed “telescopic
philanthropy”–the concern for the condition of distant peoples while the plight
of kindred in one’s own backyard are ignored.
Today much of what we see on “Turner
Television” and Pat Robertson’s misnamed “Family Channel,” are TV films
depicting Blacks in chains, Blacks being whipped, Blacks oppressed. Nowhere can
we find a cinematic chronicle of the Whites who were beaten and killed in White
slavery. Four-fifths of the White slaves sent to Britain’s sugar colonies in
the West Indies did not survive their first year.
Soldiers in the American Revolution and
sailors impressed into the American navy received upwards of two hundred
whiplashes for minor infractions. But no TV show lifts the shirt of these White
yeoman to reveal the scars on their backs.
The Establishment would rather weep over the
poor persecuted Negroes, but leave the White working class “rednecks” and
“crackers” (both of these terms of derision were first applied to White
slaves), to live next door to the Blacks.
Little has changed since the early 1800s when
the men of property and station of the English Parliament outlawed Black
slavery throughout the Empire. While this Parliament was in session to enact
this law, ragged five year old White orphan boys, beaten, starved and whipped,
were being forced up the chimneys of the English parliament, to clean them.
Sometimes the chimney masonry collapsed on these boys. Other times they
suffocated to death inside their narrow smoke channels.
Long after Blacks were free throughout the
British Empire, the British House of Lords refused to abolish chimney-sweeping
by White children under the age of ten. The Lords contended that to do so would
interfere with “property rights.” The lives of the White children were not
worth a farthing and were considered no subject for humanitarian concern.
The chronicle of White slavery in America
comprises the dustiest shelf in the darkest corner of suppressed American
history. Should the truth about that epoch ever emerge into the public
consciousness of Americans, the whole basis for the swindle of “Affirmative
action,” “minority set-asides” and proposed “Reparations to African-Americans”
will be swept away. The fact is, the White working people of this country owe
no one. They are themselves the descendants, as Congressman Wilmot so aptly
said, of “the sons of toil.”
There will only be racial peace when knowledge
of radical historical truths are widespread and both sides negotiate from
positions of strength and not from fantasies of White working class guilt and the
uniqueness of Black suffering.
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
racial kindred. The man who neglects his own children to care for yours has
true love for neither.
White, self-hating liberals and greed-head
conservatives who claim to care for the “civil rights” of Black and Third World
people, discard the working class of their own people on the garbage heap of
history. When they are finished with their own they shall surely turn on
others.
Those who care for their own kind first are
not practicing “hate” but kindness, which is the very root of the word.
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