The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America

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This was taught in schools in the 1940s and 50s but I bet not a word of it today.

Following the cultivation in 1613 of an acceptable tobacco crop in Virginia, the need for labor accelerated. Slavery was viewed as the cheapest and most expedient way of providing the necessary work force. Due to harsh working conditions, beatings, starvation, and disease, survival rates for slaves rarely exceeded two years. Thus, the high level of demand was sustained by a continuous flow of white slaves from England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1618 to 1775, who were imported to serve America's colonial masters.

These white slaves in the New World consisted of street children plucked from London's back alleys, prostitutes, and impoverished migrants searching for a brighter future and willing to sign up for indentured servitude. Convicts were also persuaded to avoid lengthy sentences and executions on their home soil by enslavement in the British colonies. The much maligned Irish, viewed as savages worthy of ethnic cleansing and despised for their rejection of Protestantism, also made up a portion of America's first slave population, as did Quakers, Cavaliers, Puritans, Jesuits, and others.

Over 300,000 of them!

Full story @ Articles: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
 
Was the slavery inter-generational? Do the descendants of those people still suffer today?

Nope. IN fact, most of it was indentured servitude for a short time.

This is more white grievance mongering. "But white people were kind of slaves, too. except they had contracts and stuff."
 
The referenced article in the OP was written on July 28 (yesterday), and in the 1940s and 1950s, the "economic slaves" were referred to as "white indentured servants" on economic labor contracts.

The two reasons they were supplanted by African black slavery in the 1660s and 1670s in the British North America colonies were (1) it was far too costly, as too many died to make them economically feasible, and (2) they competed for land when they survived their contracts.
 
Was the slavery inter-generational? Do the descendants of those people still suffer today?

Nope. IN fact, most of it was indentured servitude for a short time.

This is more white grievance mongering. "But white people were kind of slaves, too. except they had contracts and stuff."
Read this from the Great Walter Williams...and get an education for the first time.

Walter Williams - Slavery

The most unique aspect of slavery in the Western world was the moral outrage against it, which began to emerge in the 18th century and led to massive elimination efforts. It was Britain's military sea power that put an end to the slave trade. And our country fought a costly war that brought an end to slavery. Unfortunately, these facts about slavery are not in the lessons taught in our schools and colleges. Instead, there is gross misrepresentation and suggestion that slavery was a uniquely American practice.
Read more at Walter Williams - Slavery
 
The referenced article in the OP was written on July 28 (yesterday), and in the 1940s and 1950s, the "economic slaves" were referred to as "white indentured servants" on economic labor contracts.

The two reasons they were supplanted by African black slavery in the 1660s and 1670s in the British North America colonies were (1) it was far too costly, as too many died to make them economically feasible, and (2) they competed for land when they survived their contracts.

Well said. The ironic thing is their descendants became the poor white trash that fought for the Confederacy and voted for Trump and wonder why their health insurance is going away.
 
Also, a white escapee became 'invisible' and, thus, almost impossible to re-capture.
 
This was taught in schools in the 1940s and 50s but I bet not a word of it today.

Following the cultivation in 1613 of an acceptable tobacco crop in Virginia, the need for labor accelerated. Slavery was viewed as the cheapest and most expedient way of providing the necessary work force. Due to harsh working conditions, beatings, starvation, and disease, survival rates for slaves rarely exceeded two years. Thus, the high level of demand was sustained by a continuous flow of white slaves from England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1618 to 1775, who were imported to serve America's colonial masters.

These white slaves in the New World consisted of street children plucked from London's back alleys, prostitutes, and impoverished migrants searching for a brighter future and willing to sign up for indentured servitude. Convicts were also persuaded to avoid lengthy sentences and executions on their home soil by enslavement in the British colonies. The much maligned Irish, viewed as savages worthy of ethnic cleansing and despised for their rejection of Protestantism, also made up a portion of America's first slave population, as did Quakers, Cavaliers, Puritans, Jesuits, and others.

Over 300,000 of them!

Full story @ Articles: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
/----/ I went to school in the 50s and 60s and was taught the same thing.
 
Instead, there is gross misrepresentation and suggestion that slavery was a uniquely American practice.
Apart from that being complete bullshit, a government was formed and a war prosecuted on the basis of the inferiority of the black man
 
Was the slavery inter-generational? Do the descendants of those people still suffer today?

Nope. IN fact, most of it was indentured servitude for a short time.

This is more white grievance mongering. "But white people were kind of slaves, too. except they had contracts and stuff."
/----/ What part of "slavery" do you not understand?
 
Instead, there is gross misrepresentation and suggestion that slavery was a uniquely American practice.
Rather there is gross misrepresentation that African slaves were immigrant guest workers, picking cotton to better themselves.
 
Instead, there is gross misrepresentation and suggestion that slavery was a uniquely American practice.
Apart from that being complete bullshit, a government was formed and a war prosecuted on the basis of the inferiority of the black man
You clearly have learned nothing from history, other than lies.
 
Was the slavery inter-generational? Do the descendants of those people still suffer today?

Nope. IN fact, most of it was indentured servitude for a short time.

This is more white grievance mongering. "But white people were kind of slaves, too. except they had contracts and stuff."

not exactly a "SHORT" period of time and----sometimes the "sentence" was extended to LIFE.
The children were not hereditary slaves-----but they did not have much of a chance in society or life.

I assure you------white slaves were abused
 
Indentured servants aren't slaves. That's just a myth perpetrated by some people who want to make themselves feel better. If one feels bad when taught history, is it history's fault or do you need to look inside your own psyche to find the cause?
 
Was the slavery inter-generational? Do the descendants of those people still suffer today?

Nope. IN fact, most of it was indentured servitude for a short time.

This is more white grievance mongering. "But white people were kind of slaves, too. except they had contracts and stuff."

not exactly a "SHORT" period of time and----sometimes the "sentence" was extended to LIFE.
The children were not hereditary slaves-----but they did not have much of a chance in society or life.

I assure you------white slaves were abused

White slaves were terribly abused...but mostly by Muslims.

How come little is known of Muslim slavery? They have a horrendous history of slavery and many Muslim slaves where Europeans captured by Muslim invaders. When leftists control history, they lie.
 
not exactly a "SHORT" period of time and----sometimes the "sentence" was extended to LIFE. The children were not hereditary slaves-----but they did not have much of a chance in society or life. I assure you------white slaves were abused
Indentured servants were undoubtedly abused, but they weren't slaves. They had rights that chattel slaves did not and their term however long, WAS limited, not generational and resulted in citizenship at the end of its term.
 
White slaves were terribly abused...but mostly by Muslims. How come little is known of Muslim slavery? They have a horrendous history of slavery and many Muslim slaves where Europeans captured by Muslim invaders. When leftists control history, they lie.
The difference is the reasons for their slavery. Historically it came about because of war, religion, debt or criminality. Christian slaves could often improve their lot by converting. American slavery was different in that it added race to the mix, a condition which could not be changed, leading to second-class citizenship after emancipation and continues to present problems today. That's why it's still such a big topic and other historical forms of slavery aren't.
 
Apart from that being complete bullshit, a government was formed and a war prosecuted on the basis of the inferiority of the black man
You clearly have learned nothing from history, other than lies.
Yeah, right. Crackers be revising the words of thuh Vice President of thuh Confederacy agin', it's whut they do.

Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.[1]

The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.
Cornerstone_Speech
 
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