There were more of them, whites in bondage, from the early 17th Century, than negroes, total, after 1619.
Some penal whites, mostly Irish wetbacks, were sent to the Indies as slaves in the British sugar plantations.
Watch: Captain Blood
Sunday, December 11, 2016
RE BONDAGE SLAVERY AND CONVICT POPULATIONS IN THE NEW WORLD
Most Americans think the white colonists all came over free rather than in bondage.
In most cases, this was neither bondage caused by aristocracy nor monarchy, but rather by merely the contract with a ship captain, or a colonial entrepreneur.
In most cases, this was neither bondage caused by aristocracy nor monarchy, but rather by merely the contract with a ship captain, or a colonial entrepreneur.
For the numbers, which are staggering, take a look at J H Elliott, and his reference sources, Empires of the Atlantic World, p 258.
For bondage specifically, similar in many ways to slavery, or to convict transportation and its consequences, but theoretically temporary, and its magnitudes, see BailynVoyagers To The West
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Few Americans know this real story. They think their ancestors were all free eager colonists coming over here to create a brave new world.
Read Smuggler Nation, just to wake up. Then go to Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, and Empires of the Atlantic World, but you need your thinking cap on.
Then go right into Colonists in Bondage for the piece du resistance.
At one time at least seventy percent of those convicted at The Old Bailey were sent to America (all were white).... Back cover.
Where do you think the rest might have gone? How about Australia?
Only after that, read the mountain of mostly bull about how bad only negro slavery was here in North America.
Guess what? Another actual history bomb then drops:
Only about one tenth of all negro slaves were ever even sent to North America. Nine tenths were sent to the West Indies and South America.
Believe me, when you read the fuller accounts, North America was a virtual garden spot for the relatively few Negro slaves sent here, as well as for the white indentured servants, political prisoners (Irish, jacobites, quakers, etc), and convicts sent both places too, compared to either the Caribbean or South America!
Very few white prisoners turned into Captain Blood! Most of them died a lot faster than the negro slaves sent to the Indies and South America. They couldn't take the tropics. That is why, over time, negroes commanded twice the price of white labor in the Indies and South America.
Very few white prisoners turned into Captain Blood! Most of them died a lot faster than the negro slaves sent to the Indies and South America. They couldn't take the tropics. That is why, over time, negroes commanded twice the price of white labor in the Indies and South America.
The negroes sent here were actually able to live in conditions that allowed them to procreate! Jefferson has a nice account of how his slaves are incorporated into his capitalist nail manufacturing business, and how he made money on the sale of his slaves' children, realizing he estimated 5% a year on them, all told. "Unmasking Thomas Jefferson", Smithsonian Magazine.
That was not the case either in the West Indies or South America, where they were worked to death without procreation privileges, because it was more profitable to import more than to pay for their maintenance.
Don't take my word for it, see J H Elliott, Bailyn, Smith, and a myriad of other highly respected sources. Before 1776, Teaching Company video lecture course, also very good.
Smell the coffee.
Sunday, November 10, 2019
WHITE COLONIALS WERE AUCTIONED OFF JUST LIKE NEGROES BUT WHITE LIBERALS DON'T EVEN KNOW THEIR OWN DUMB ASS HISTORY
Separated from their families just like auction block negroes, most of whom were males because that was what the planters needed most.....
A lot of white bond servants ended up getting screwed by their white masters, just like the negro Sally Hemingses.
Funny you don't ever hear anything about that at all. There is only one Hollywood movie on the subject. And of course there is also Captain Blood.
See Colonists In Bondage, by a scholar whose career was research for the CIA.
A lot of white bond servants ended up getting screwed by their white masters, just like the negro Sally Hemingses.
Funny you don't ever hear anything about that at all. There is only one Hollywood movie on the subject. And of course there is also Captain Blood.
See Colonists In Bondage, by a scholar whose career was research for the CIA.
Monday, July 15, 2019
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.
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"
Friday, June 7, 2019
MOST AMERICANS AND ALL NEGROES BELIEVE THAT ONLY NEGROES WORKED SUGAR PLANTATIONS
Half a million Europeans, mostly young men, also went to the Caribbean under indenture to work on plantations. Most indentures were voluntary, although some people were tricked or coerced into them.
Wikipedia
Why shouldn't descendants of white indentured servants who got a raw deal get reparations from descendants of their masters?
See also: Captain Blood
Why shouldn't descendants of white indentured servants who got a raw deal get reparations from descendants of their masters?
See also: Captain Blood
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