AMERICAN WHIG HISTORY IGNORES ITS WHITE BONDAGE PAST BUT HARPS ON ITS NEGRO SLAVE LIBERATION

Almost half of all whites who came here were serfs for a term of years from 4 to 7. it could be extended. 

Often at hard labor, sometimes in the sugar islands of the Indies just like negroes. See for example the classic Captain Blood.

Very few of them became entitled to land at the end. 

They were routinely abused by their masters, some indentured women were sexually used by their masters, just like slave women.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

INDENTURED SERVITUDE VERY RARE HOLLYWOOD MOVIE THEME

Almost no Americans have any knowledge of this ubiquitous institution of colonial and post colonial white America. 

Almost no movies ever treated it as a topic or subplot, yet it was everywhere, even into the period of the old West.

There were very large numbers of male indentured servants too, probably a much greater total number over several hundreds years than women, so the movie focuses on only part of the story of indentured servitude, and then mainly from an inaccurate sexist angle, as Hollywood was wont to do with all themes having a larger historical foundation. That was not normally the only basis for indentured servitude in America.

"Rachel and the Stranger"