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Whites
in Servitude in Early America and Industrial
Britain
White
children enslaved in a mine in 19th century England. The
two on the left are virtually naked. Children of both sexes
worked in this manner.
by Michael
Hoffman
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In 1997, 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 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, 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. 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. 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 an extensive operation. 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
Black, the men in the hold were Irish. Olmsted inquired
about this to a shipworker. "Oh," said the worker, "the
Negroes are worth too much to be risked here; if the
Paddies are knocked overboard or get their backs broke,
nobody loses anything."
Enslavement of White people: The documentary
facts
While British slavers were traveling to Africa's western
coast to buy Black slaves from African chieftains, they
also sold their own White working class kindred ("the
surplus poor" as they were termed by Elizabethan and Stuart
dynasty officials) - from the streets and towns of England
and Scotland, into slavery. Hundreds of thousands of these
White slaves were kidnapped children. In fact, the
very origin
of the word "kidnapped" is kid-nabbed,
the abduction 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." This is good news for Black
people whose enemies have attempted to brand them as a
hereditary slave race. Not so! The word for the Whites of
Eastern Europe is syonymous with the word slave.
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.
Americans 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. 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 television and at the movies
are films depicting Blacks in chains, Blacks being whipped,
Blacks oppressed. These are facts and the oppression of
Black people in America shoould not be denied.
Telling the
truth about White enslavement does not detract from the
horrors of Black enslavement. By the same
token, neither should the history of White enslavement be
denied or minimized. Fairness and fidelity to the
documentary record impel us to state that 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. Let's tell the truth about every facet of history
including whites in bondage.
Negative stereotyping of Black people as
the
"slave race"
There is an agenda behind the negative stigma of Black
people as the
"slave race" on
planet earth. This is psychologically destructive
stereotyping. It is derived in part from the
rabbinic Midrash
on
Ham and Canaan (cf. Midrash
Rabbah vol. 1
[Soncino, 1983], p. 293), stating that Canaan was a Black
person destined to be a hereditary slave. The Bible
contains no such racial identification. This spurious
deisgnation was added by the rabbinic authors of the
man-made Midrash, and subsequently accepted as fact by some
Catholic and many Protestant and Judaic enslavers,
resulting in untold misery and oppression inflicted upon
Black people.
We have good news for Blacks: many ethnicities have been
enslaved throughout history. As previously noted, the
Slavic people were enslaved relentlessly for many centuries
by Vikings and other marauders. Blacks have a glorious
history as free people. Contrary to the rabbis, the Black
race is not a slave race!
Moreover, the long-buried account of the Judaic role in the
enalvement of Black people has been detailed in a
formidable work of scholarship, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and
Jews, volumes
1-2.
Furthermore, Judaic masters holding any Christian in
bondage was illegal in Christendom. While not all, or even
a majority of Black slaves were necessarily Christian, let
the record show that the enslavement of any
Christian,
whether Black or White, by any Talmudic slavemaster, was
strictly illegal under English statute, as stated by the
Lord Chief Justice of England, Sir Edward Coke:
"Judeo
Christianum nullum serviat mancipium, nefas enim est quem,
Christus redemit blasphemum, Christi in servitus vinculis
detinere" ("No
Christian shall be sold in slavery to a Jew, for it is
unlawful that someone who Christ redeemed should be held in
servitude by someone who blasphemes against
Christ"). Cf.
Coke, 77 Eng. Rep. 397 (1608 A.D.).
The
enslavement by Judaic masters of Africans in North or South
America who had converted to Christ was a mockery of the
laws of Christendom. This mockery
was made possible by papal and masonic nullification of the
law (Freemasonry is a Kabbalistic branch of Judaism,
and during the Renaissance the papacy "baptized"
the Kabbalah among the Catholic
elite). Recall
that Justice Coke was not making a law. Men do not make
the laws of God. The English jurist was
recognizing
a divine law
that had been endowed by God Himself. Blasphemers of
Jesus cannot hold Christians in bondage. Case closed.
Therefore, the statute cited by Coke inevitably must
have the force of law in any nation that is truly ruled
by the Gospel (tragically, too few actually were).
Cf. Revisionist
History® issue no. 70: "The Rabbinic Curse on
Christians."
Elite Whites and their contempt for poor Whites
Returning to the subjugation of Whites under the White
ruling class, by the early 1800s men of property and
station in the English Parliament had 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 those boys.
Other times they suffocated to death inside their narrow
smoke channels. Legions of white children also labored
underground in British mines while naked or nearly so, and
in great misery.
Long after Blacks were free throughout the British Empire,
the British House of Lords refused to abolish mining and
chimney-sweeping by English 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. For example, there was 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, scorned
poor white laborers as "trash." To this day, the White
ruling class denigrates the White poor. On July 12, 2018
high-ranking FBI official Peter Strzok, a liberal Democrat,
testified in Congress. There he was confronted with his
statements about working class whites: he said they stink
(“smell”), and in general are “ignorant
hillbillies.” For centuries elite Whites have
despised, brutalized and oppressed poor Whites.
There
will only be racial peace when knowledge of radical
historical truths are widespread and both sides negotiate
from positions of strength; not from fantasies of White
working class guilt.
Black
and Third World "beneficiaries" of White ruling class
liberal "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 kinsmen. The man who neglects his own
children to care for yours, has true love for neither.
Many white liberals 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.
For further research
They Were White and They Were Slaves: The
Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early
America
by Michael Hoffman
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