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Title: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
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URL Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/art ... _in_america.html#ixzz6PAFUvo00
Published: Jul 26, 2017
Author: Janet Levy
Post Date: 2020-06-13 09:26:15 by Ada
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Slavery in America, typically associated with blacks from Africa, was an enterprise that began with the shipping of more than 300,000 white Britons to the colonies. This little known history is fascinatingly recounted in White Cargo (New York University Press, 2007). Drawing on letters, diaries, ship manifests, court documents, and government archives, authors Don Jordan and Michael Walsh detail how thousands of whites endured the hardships of tobacco farming and lived and died in bondage in the New World.

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.

Around 1618 at the start of their colonial slave trade, the English began by seizing and shipping to Virginia impoverished children, even toddlers, from London slums. Some impoverished parents sought a better life for their offspring and agreed to send them, but most often, the children were sent despite their own protests and those of their families. At the time, the London authorities represented their actions as an act of charity, a chance for a poor youth to apprentice in America, learn a trade, and avoid starvation at home. Tragically, once these unfortunate youngsters arrived, 50% of them were dead within a year after being sold to farmers to work the fields.

A few months after the first shipment of children, the first African slaves were shipped to Virginia. Interestingly, no American market existed for African slaves until late in the 17th century. Until then, black slave traders typically took their cargo to Bermuda. England's poor were the colonies' preferred source of slave labor, even though Europeans were more likely than Africans to die an early death in the fields. Slave owners had a greater interest in keeping African slaves alive because they represented a more significant investment. Black slaves received better treatment than Europeans on plantations, as they were viewed as valuable, lifelong property rather than indentured servants with a specific term of service.

These indentured servants represented the next wave of laborers. They were promised land after a period of servitude, but most worked unpaid for up to15 years with few ever owning any land. Mortality rates were high. Of the 1,200 who arrived in 1619, more than two thirds perished in the first year from disease, working to death, or Indian raid killings. In Maryland, out of 5,000 indentured servants who entered the colony between 1670 and 1680, 1,250 died in bondage, 1,300 gained their right to freedom, and only 241 ever became landowners.

Early in the 17th century, the headright system, a land allocation program to attract new colonists, began in Jamestown, Virginia as an attempt to solve labor shortages. The program provided acreage to heads of households that funded travel to the colony for destitute individuals to work the land. It led to the sharp growth of indentured servitude and slavery because the more slaves imported by a colonist, the larger the tracts of land received. Promises of prosperity and land were used to lure the poor, who were typically enslaved for three to 15 years. All the while, agents profited handsomely by augmenting their land holdings. Corruption was rampant in the headright system and included double-counting of individual slaves, land allocations for servants who were dead upon arrival, and per head fees given for those kidnapped off English streets.

Purveyors of slaves often worked in teams of spirits, captains, and office-keepers to kidnap people from English ports for sale in the American labor market. Spirits lured or kidnapped potential servants and arranged for their transport with ship captains. Office-keepers maintained a base to run the operation. They would entertain their prey and get them to sign papers until an awaiting ship became available. Spirits and their accomplices were occasionally put on trial, but court records show that they got off easily and that the practice was tolerated because it was so profitable.

The indentured servant system of people who voluntarily mortgaged their freedom evolved into slavery. England essentially dumped its unwanted in the American colonies, where they were treated no better than livestock. Servants were regularly battered, whipped, and humiliated. Disease was rampant, food was in short supply, and working and living conditions were grim. War with local native Indian tribes was common. Severe punishment made escape unrealistic. Initially, running away was considered a capital crime, with clemency granted in exchange for an agreement to increase the period of servitude.

In the 1640s, the transportation of the Irish began. Britain's goal was to obliterate Ireland's Catholics to make room for English planters. Catholics who refused to attend a Protestant church could be fined. If they were unable to pay, they could be sold as slaves. Following the end of the English Civil Wars in 1651, English military and political leader Oliver Cromwell focused his attention on Ireland, where the people had allied with the defeated royalists during the conflict. Famine was created by the intentional destruction of food stocks. Those implicated in the rebellion had their land confiscated and were sold into slavery. Anyone refusing to relocate was threatened with death, including children.

Scots were also subjected to transportation to the British colonies for religious differences, as England imposed Anglican disciplines on the Church of Scotland as well. The English army was deployed to break up illegal church assemblies and imprison or deport religious protesters.

Cruelty to servants was rampant. Beatings were common, and the perpetrators, buttressed by juries made up of fellow landowners, were rarely punished for abuse or even murder. In time, efforts were made to improve the lot of servants. Legislation in 1662 provided for a "competent diet, clothing and lodging" and disciplinary measures not to "exceed the bounds of moderation." Servants were granted the right to complain, but the cruelty continued.

Infanticide by unmarried women was common, as they could be severely punished for "fornication." The mother faced a whipping, fines, and extra years added to her servitude. Her offspring faced time in bondage as well. If the mother was the victim of a rape by the master, he faced a fine and the loss of a servant but wasn't subjected to whipping.

Several uprisings in the American colonies awakened slave owners to problems, exposing their vulnerability within the caste-like master-servant social system they had created. In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, an aristocrat from England who became a Virginia colonist, instigated an insurrection, referred to as Bacon's Rebellion, that changed the course of white slavery.

Prior to Bacon's Rebellion, much discontentment existed among servants over seemingly empty promises of land following their periods of indenture. When they were finally freed of their obligations, many found that they couldn't afford the required land surveying fees and the exorbitant poll taxes.

In 1675, when war broke out with some of the native tribes, Bacon joined the side of the warring settlers and offered freedom to every slave and servant who deserted his master and joined Bacon in battle. Hundreds enthusiastically joined him in the insurgency. When Bacon died suddenly, his supporters fled or surrendered; some were recaptured, put in chains, and beaten or hanged. However, because of the revolt, whites gained rights. Whippings were forbidden without a formal judicial order.

By the early 1770s, the convict trade was big business, more profitable than the black slave trade because criminals were cheap. They could be sold for one third the price of indentured servants. England's jails were being emptied into America on a significant scale. Additionally, merchants who traded in convicts from England and Ireland received a subsidy for every miscreant transported to America. Up to a third of incoming convicts died from dysentery, smallpox, typhoid, and freezing temperatures. Upon arrival, they were advertised for sale, inspected, and taken away in chains by new masters.

Following the Revolutionary War, the British continued to ship convict labor as "indentured servants" to America. During that time, seven ships filled with prisoners made the journey, and two successfully landed. In 1789, convict importation was legally banned across the U.S. America would no longer be the dumping ground for British criminals. It took another 30 years before the indentured servant trade ended completely.

A well written and well researched historical narrative, White Cargo does an excellent job of elucidating a forgotten part of our colonial past by telling the story of thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage before African slaves were transported to the New World.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

the things we aren't told by government schools and government media.

White Slavery: The Scottish Slaves of England and Americas

https://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/white-slavery-re-slaves-of-scotland/comment-page-1/

Scots, Irish, Alba and Pics - race held longest in slavery

http://www.fsos.com/Hist%20PDFS/whiteslave.pdf

This last one says something curious at the end...the white race was in bondage in Egypt for 430 years.

Interesting because they call the Israelites white.

Interesting because the Christian Identity groups say the Israelites were white.

And apparently the Qumran/Dead Sea Scrolls, if they are legit, say Sarah, Abraham's wife was a very beautiful woman with a white complexion.

The Black Hebrew Israelite groups say the Israelites were black The Jews say...whatever.

This Chabad group says they were afflicted in Egypt 210 years [ https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4511335/jewish/Gog-and-Magog.htm ], still far short of 430 or even 400 years.

I believe the prophecy is fulfilled in America, which was founded in 1607 with a cross and a charter to spread the gospel. [ https://www.biblehub.com/galatians/3-29.htm ]. I have read recently that some of the first blacks to come here in 1619 were already Christians when they arrived. The "affliction" clock may have started ticking then. Or maybe some of those white slaves that came in 1618 were Christians when they came.

Genesis 15:13 Your seed [see Galatians 3:29 above] shall be servants in a land not their own....

CHECK.

THE LAND STILL BELONGS TO THE KING

WERE YOU EVER FREE***CAN YOU BE FREE***WITHOUT OWNING LAND???THE LAND STILL BELONGS TO THE KING, AMERICANS WERE NEVER FREE

https://patriots4truth.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/were-you-ever-free.pdf

THE UNITED STATES IS STILL A BRITISH COLONY

http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/themagazine/vol8/articles/colony.shtml

http://biblebelievers.org.au/king44.htm

...and they will be afflicted 400 years...[Genesis 15:13].

And I'd wager since we are ALL slaves now [ http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2011/01/you-are-all-slaves.html ], the affliction has gone on for the required 400 years, but our time of redemption should be nigh as I see it. Thus, for this and many other reasons, I believe Christian America is the fulfillment of Genesis 15:13-14.

https://biblehub.com/genesis/15-13.htm

"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm

AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt  posted on  2020-06-13   19:06:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Ada (#1) (Edited)

The Jordan Maxwell video at the YOU ARE ALL SLAVES article is also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R63AH_LneaQ

YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS A STOCK ON THE NYSE! YOU'RE ALL SLAVES, SOLD AS COLLATERAL TO THE BANK THAT BOUGHT U IN 1932!

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some comments:

juan jose

5 years ago

We all need to do the due diligence and seek out the truth. We have all been bonded and sold as stock. Like cattle from a STOCK yard.

P Mac

5 years ago

This is actually true for those who don't believe it. I just looked up one of my kids on fidelity and there were 425 different accounts with banks with his birth cert number on the NYSE. This is very disturbing.

Fallen World

1 year ago

We are all slaves, and we're born this way. We never won the war of independence, and we never won WW2, we only imported NAZI agents and allowed their ideology to grow from within.

Angel Deplorable

1 month ago

Next time I go to court I'm wearing a sailor outfit or a pirate outfit. Straight up... I'm gonna say, aye aye Cap'n 😂😂😂

[LOL! They brought piracy onto the land through their Admiralty/Maritime "Law"].

Antifa/BLM are working for the Banksters that made us all slaves.

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Note Jordan Maxwell said the UCC is the GOD and the BIBLE of the Banksters et al.

That must be the GOD [along with Lucifer] in whom they TRUST on the $1 Bill.

Note that he said the UCC was Civil Law.

"...We are living under what the Bible calls Mammon. As written in the subject Index, Mammon is defined as ("Civil law and procedure").

Now turn to the "The Shetars Effect on English Law" -- A Law of the Jews Becomes the Law of the Land, found in "The George Town Law Journal, Vol 71: pages 1179-1200." It is clearly stated in the Law Review that the Jews are the property of the Norman and Anglo-Saxon Kings. It also explains that the Talmud is the law of the land. It explains how the Babylonian Talmud became the law of the land, which is now known as the Uniform Commercial Code which is private international law. The written credit agreement -- the Jewish shetar is a lien on all of the property in the world. The treatise also explains that the Jews are owned by Great Britain and that the Jews are in charge of the Baking system.

We are living under the Babylonian Talmud. It was brought into England in 1066 and has been enforced by the Pope, Kings and the various religions ever since. It is total and relentless mind control, people are taught to believe in things that do not exist..."

https://republic4dummies.blogspot.com/2011/03/ultimate-delusion.html

Bible says you can't serve God and Mammon.

Preterists/Partial Preterists believe the Book of Revelation was given to John in 66AD if I am not mistaken.

The Babylonian Talmud is the work of the devil.

1066 is 1,000 years after 66 A.D.

Relentless mind control could be read as "deception".

Revelation 20

7When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison, 8and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.…

https://www.biblehub.com/revelation/20-7.htm

I think that's where we are. fwiw.

"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm

AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt  posted on  2020-06-13   20:23:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Ada (#0)

Britain's White Slaves in America

Indentured Servants in Jamestown

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-06-13   21:00:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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