While browsing through my wordpress firestats I noticed a particular visitor landed on The Tangled Web via a search on white slaves. Out of natural curiosity I clicked the link to see where y5a.net ranked for white slaves, thereafter reading various articles on white slavery in colonial America.   The next time Reverand Jeremiah Wright or any other African American wants to piss and moan about American slavery, point out to them that whites were also slaves in colonial America as well.

  This fact needs to be brought to the public attention considering there are numerous groups whom seek slavery reparations for African Americans, which I think is nothing more than people seeking yet another free government handout and they’re not entitled.

  I am not going to reblog what others have written on white slavery in America, so will only highlight some quotes from various sources I found online and you can visit the link directly for the entire article.

White Slavery in America A Brief History by Daniel Deville

Close to “two-thirds of the original American colonist came here, not of there own free will, but kidnapped, shanghaied, impressed, duped, beguiled, and yes, in chains…We tend to gloss over it… We’d prefer to forget the whole sorry chapter…” (Elaine Kendall, 1985)

The Virginia Company arranged a deal with the City of London to have 100 poor white children “out of the swarms that swarme [sic] in the place” sent to Virginia in 1619 for sale to the wealthy planters of the colony to be used as slave labor. The Privy Council of London authorized the Virginia Co. to “imprison, punish and dispose of any of those children upon any disorder by them committed, as cause shall require.”

Whites kidnapped in Britain could be exchanged directly for produce from American farmers.

In 1657. Richard Ligon wrote in his book, A True and Exact History, of a white female slave who was traded for a pig by her master. Mr. Ligon was an eye witness to this. Both the pig and the woman were placed on a scale to measure their weight; a common practice for the sale of livestock.

According to the Parliamentary Diary, in 1659 the English debated the practice of selling British whites into slavery in the New World. In the debate the Whites were referred to not as “indentured servants” but as “slaves” whose “enslavement” threatened the liberties of all Englishmen. (Thomas Burton, vol.4, pp253-274)

Foster R Dulles writes in Labor in America: a History, 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.”

Dr. Revilo P. Oliver, of the University of Illinois, had this to say of the treatment of white slaves: “…[E]specially after the colonization of the New World, hard labor was often performed by persons who were “indentured servants’…Many were not actually indentured, but kidnapped from the British Isles by thugs and sold to slave dealers. One shocking fact you will learn… is that the whites commonly fared worse than black slaves.”

“Fugitive slave” laws were enacted against runaway white slaves. William Henning in his 13 volume Statue at Large of Virginia records punishment for runaway whites was ” to be branded in the cheek with the letter ‘R’.” They would also cut one or both ears off.
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White Slavery. What the Scots Already Know. By Kelly Whitaker

This story will offer evidence that the Alba, Scots, Irish and Pics have been the longest race held in slavery.

There were hundreds of thousands of Scots sold into slavery during Colonial America.  White slavery to the American Colonies occurred as early as 1630 in Scotland.

The Journal of Negro History #52 pp.251-273 states, “The sources of racial thought in Colonial America pertaining to slave trade worked both directions with white merchandise as well as black.”

George Downing wrote a letter to the honorable John Winthrop Colonial Governor of Massachusetts in 1645, “planters who want to make a fortune in the West Indies must procure white slave labor out of England if they wanted to succeed.”  Lewis Cecil Gray’s History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860 vol.1 pp 316, 318 records Sir George Sandys ’ 1618 plan for Virginia, referring to bound whites assigned to the treasurer’s office. “To belong to said office forever.  The service of whites bound to Berkeley Hundred was deemed perpetual.”
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The above represents only two out of several hundreds of sources.  I urge you to utilize your favorite search engine and research on white slaves in America.
The next time you read anything regarding slavery reparations for African Americans, advise them that whites were slaves too.  Matter of fact, historically, whites were slaves far longer prior to the enslavement of Africans including white slaves in Africa.

Posted on September 7th, 2008 by Enchantment and Disputation
Filed under: American History, Colonial America, History, Rants, Slavery, Things That Piss Me Off