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The Truth About Slavery
from the American Dissident Voices
The history of America and of Western Civilization is not being taught as it should
be in our schools and universities today. Historical facts are suppressed, and what is taught
is distorted in such a way as to advance the world government agenda, with all inconvenient
historical facts, knowledge of which might cause our young people to question that agenda,
purposely left out.
It is a tragedy of monumental proportions that our schools have been converted into
quot;liberalquot; brainwashing institutions, though I do feel a sense of encouragement when I read
that more and more real Americans are taking their children out of the public schools and
teaching them at home. As regular listeners to this program know, the global elite that push
multiculturalism push it because it undermines our national and racial sense of identity, and
not out of any love or concern for ethnic minorities. In fact, it should be obvious to
everyone that multiculturalism and globalism threaten the racial and cultural integrity of all
peoples, not just White Americans. Nevertheless, because America is, or was until recently,
a predominantly White nation, one of the primary ways that national disintegration is
promoted by the destroyers of nations in this country is by the inculcation of White guilt for
Black slavery.
By recounting and emphasizing again and again the real and imagined sufferings of
Black people under slavery, the White student is made to feel that his ancestors were cruel,
morally retarded, and evil. They are made to feel that they owe Black people a nearly
infinite compensation, since, they are taught, Black people's problems today are the legacy
of hundreds of years of slavery for which White people are responsible. They are taught that
the relative prosperity which we enjoy today was achieved largely by exploitation of Black
slaves. Is it any wonder that thousands of our young people join Jesse Jackson in chanting
quot;Hey Hey Ho Ho, Western Culture's Gotta Goquot;? Is it any wonder that they all too often
reject our European cultural heritage and embrace all forms of alien styles of music,
dancing, dress, grooming and slang, from Jamaican quot;rastaquot; to quot;gangsta rapquot;? Is it any
wonder that White teenagers are committing suicide in higher numbers every year? They
have received, in our public schools and colleges, not a quot;liberal education,quot; but an education
by liberals. They have been taught very well indeed -taught that they and their ancestors and
their traditions and their natural feelings are worthless and an obstacle to be overcome.
Now these liberal lies are easily countered by facts. The primary fact that must be
emphasized is that many hundreds of thousands of White people were slaves in early
America. In fact, White slavery was not only extremely common, but until the late 18th
century it was far more common than Black slavery here. Also little known is the fact that
living and labor conditions for Black slaves, bad as they often were, were usually far better
than those for White slaves.
At this point, many of you are probably saying quot;White slaves? What in the world is
he talking about? Sure, there were White indentured servants and apprentices in colonial
America, and maybe sometimes they were treated badly, but actual White slavery - that's
something that disappeared with the Romans and the Vikings. And to compare White
indentured servants to Black slaves is the worst sort of racist distortion of history!quot;
Some of you are probably saying or thinking exactly that, and quite frankly to most
of us the idea of White slavery in early America is hard to accept, schooled as we are by the
controlled media and the liberal-dominated public schools. But researcher and writer
Michael Hoffman has recently come out with one of the most earth-shaking works of
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historical research in the last decade, entitled They Were White and They Were Slaves. This
program is based on Mr. Hoffman's original research into documents long hidden from the
public eye and revealing a very different America from that presented in the controlled
media.
(Following from They Were White and They Were Slaves)
There is a history of White people that has never been told in any coherent form,
largely because most modern historians have, for reasons of politics or psychology, refused
to recognize White slaves in America as just that.
Today, not a tear is shed for the sufferings of millions of our enslaved forefathers.
200 years of White slavery in America have been almost completely obliterated from the
collective memory of the American people. Writer Elaine Kendall asks quot;Who wants to be
reminded that half - perhaps as many as two-thirds - of the original American colonists
came here, not of their 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.quot;
A correct understanding of the authentic history of the enslavement of Whites in
America could have profound consequences for the future. Most of the books on White
labor in early America use words like quot;White indentured servitude,quot; quot;White bondservants,quot;
White servants,quot; etc. Few are now aware that the majority of these so-called quot;servantsquot; were
bound to a condition more properly called permanent chattel slavery unto death. The papers
legally allowing the enslavement, called indentures, were often forged by kidnappers and
press-gangs; and in cases where these papers did not literally specify a life term of
servitude, the slave-owner had the legal right to unilaterally increase the length of the term
on the flimsiest pretexts. The so-called quot;apprenticesquot; or quot;indentured servantsquot; had no say in
the matter. These enslaved White people are, however, never called slaves by establishment
academics and media spokesmen. To do so would destroy the myth of unique Black
victimhood and universal White guilt.
Today, with the massive concentration of educational and media resources on the
Black experience of slavery, the unspoken assumption has been that only Blacks have been
enslaved to any degree or magnitude worthy of study or memorial. The historical record
reveals that this is not the case, however. The word quot;slavequot; itself is derived from the word
quot;slav,quot; a reference to the Eastern European White people who, among others, were enslaved
by their fellow Whites, by the Mongols, and by the Arabs over a period of many centuries.
According to Thomas Burton's Parliamentary Diary 1656-1659, in 1659 the English
parliament debated the practice of selling British Whites into slavery in the New World. In
the debate, these Whites were referred to not as quot;indentured servantsquot; but as quot;slaves.quot;
In the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies of 1701,
we read of a protest over the quot;encouragement to the spiriting away of Englishmen without
their consent and selling them for slaves, which hath been a practice very frequent and
known by the name of kidnapping.quot; In the British West Indies, plantation slavery was
instituted as early as 1627. In Barbados by the 1640s there were an estimated 25,000 slaves,
of whom 21,700 were White.
This document records that while White slaves were worked to death, as they cost
next to nothing, there were Caribbean Indians brought from Guiana to help propagate native
foodstuffs who were well-treated and received as free persons by the wealthy planters.
The Englishman William Eddis, after observing White slaves in America in the
1770s wrote: quot;Generally speaking, they groan beneath a worse than Egyptian bondage.quot;
Governor Sharpe of the Maryland colony compared the property interest of the planters in
their White slaves, with the estate of an English farmer consisting of a quot;Multitude of
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Cattle.quot;
Lay historian Col. A. B. Ellis, writing in the British Newspaper Argosy for May 6,
1893, said: quot;Few, but readers of old colonial state papers and records, are aware that
between the years 1649 to 1690 a lively trade was carried on between England and the
plantations, as the colonies were then called, [a trade] in political prisoners... they were sold
at auction... for various terms of years, sometimes for life, as slaves.quot;
Sir George Sandys' 1618 plan for Virginia referred to bound Whites assigned to the
treasurer's office to quot;belong to said office forever.quot; The service of Whites bound to
Berkeley's Hundred was deemed quot;perpetual.quot;
Numerous documents from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and even nineteenth
centuries reveal that these Whites in bondage certainly referred to themselves as slaves, and
there are even records of Blacks referring to them as quot;White slaves.quot; Did you know that the
expression quot;kidnapping,quot; (originally kid-nabbing) had its origin in the abduction of poor
White children to be sold into factory slavery in Britain or plantation slavery in America?
Did you know that the expression quot;spirited awayquot; likewise originated with the White
slavers, who were also called quot;spiritsquot;?
The White slavery in America was but an extension of the White slavery in the
mother country, Britain, where the legal form of contracted indentured servitude and
apprenticeship was maintained as a spurious cover for plain and simple lifetime chattel
slavery. Particularly shocking was the enslavement of White children for factory labor.
Children were openly seized from orphanages and workhouses and placed in the factories.
In Brian Inglis' Poverty and the Industrial Revolution we read: quot;Here then was a
ready source of labor - and a very welcome one. The children were formally indentured as
apprentices... What happened to them was nobody's concern. A parish in London, having
got rid of a batch of unwanted pauper children, was unlikely to interest itself in their
subsequent fate... The term 'apprenticeship' was in any case a misnomer....quot;
In Marjorie Cruikshank's Children and Industry: quot;many employers imported child
apprentices, parish orphans from workhouses far and near. Clearly, overseers of the poor
were only too keen to get rid of the orphans... children were brought (to the factories) like
'cartloads of live lumber' and abandoned to their fate... poor children, taken from
workhouses or kidnapped in the streets of the metropolis, used to be brought down by...
coach to Manchester and slid into a cellar in Mosley Street as if they had been stones or any
other inanimate substance.quot;
White children worked up to sixteen hours a day and during that period the doors
were locked. Children - and most of the mill workers were children - were allowed out only
to 'go to the necessary.' In some factories it was forbidden to open the windows... The child
'apprentices' who were on night shift might have to stay on it for as long as four or five
years. They were lucky if they were given a half penny an hour.
This was labor without any breaks - unceasing labor. When the children fell asleep
at the machines, they were lashed into wakefulness with a whip. If they arrived late to the
factory, talked to another child, or committed some other infraction they were beaten with
an iron bar known as a quot;billy-roller,quot; eight feet long and one inch and a half in diameter.
Many were thus murdered, often for trifling offenses such as calling out names to the next
child.
Thousands of children were mangled or mutilated by the primitive factory
machinery every year. They were often disfigured or disabled for life, then abandoned,
receiving no compensation of any kind. Similar conditions obtained for enslaved White
children on this side of the Atlantic, as what William Blake called quot;these Satanic Millsquot;
spread to our shores.
Historian Oscar Handlin writes that in colonial America, White servants could be
bartered for a profit, sold to the highest bidder for the unpaid debts of their masters, and
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otherwise transferred like moveable goods or chattels...
The controlled media focus exclusively on the enslavement of Blacks. The
impression is given that only Whites bear responsibility for enslaving Blacks and that only
Blacks were slaves. In fact, Blacks in Africa engaged in extensive enslavement of their own
kind. Slavery was endemic in Africa, with entire tribes being enslaved through conquest on
a regular basis. When Arabic, Jewish and White slave traders arrived on the coast of sub-
Saharan Africa, they seldom if ever had to travel inland and fight or pursue their quarry.
They were met on the coast by Africans more than willing to sell slaves to them by the
thousands. And in America, records show that Black slaves were owned, not just by a few
wealthy Whites, but by free Blacks and by Cherokee Indians. In some cases, these Blacks
and Indians even owned White slaves.
White slaves were actually owned by Blacks and Indians in the South to such an
extent that the Virginia Assembly passed the following law in 1670: quot;It is enacted that no
negro or Indian though baptized and enjoying their own freedom shall be capable of any
such purchase of Christians.quot; The records of the time reveal that free Blacks often owned
Black slaves themselves. In 1717, it was proposed that a qualification for election to the
South Carolina Assembly was to be quot;the ownership of one White man.quot;
From 1609 until the early 1800s, between one half and two thirds of all the White
colonists who came to the New World came as slaves. White slaves cleared the forests,
drained the swamps, built the roads, sweated in the fields, and died like flies in hellish
factories. Owned like property, they had no rights nor recourse to the law. Fugitive slave
laws applied to them just as to Blacks if they should flee their masters. Black slaves were
expensive, and though at times cruelly used, were not often used beyond the limits of
human endurance. That would have been a waste of a costly investment. White slaves,
however, consisting of the poor and unwanted quot;surplus populationquot; of Britain, were
available for nearly nothing, just a few pence for a thug to billyclub them and shanghai
them aboard a westward-bound vessel. Thus they were expendable.
Both psychologically and materially Whites in modern times are called upon to bear
burdens of guilt and monetary reparation for Black slavery. This position is based entirely
on enforced ignorance and the deliberate suppression of the record of White slavery in
North America.
Reparations? Welfare and affirmative action as compensation for past slavery?
Leaving aside for the moment the very questionable idea of punishing the great-grandson
for the sins of the great-grandfather, let us consider the principles involved. Far more
Whites in America are descendants of White slaves than are descendants of slave owners.
And considering the endemic nature of slavery in Black Africa, it is quite likely that a large
proportion of Blacks in America have ancestors who were themselves slave owners. So let
us hear no more of White guilt and endless payments and quot;affirmative actionquot; to atone for
the sin of the enslavement of Blacks. These endless payments themselves are a form of
slavery. For the good of all races and peoples, let us rid ourselves of slavery for all time.
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