WHEN ELIZABETH I ACCUSED PARMA AND PHILIP OF ENSLAVING LOW COUNTRIES REBEL LOW LIFES

 They were talking about white Low Countries low lifes, not Africa negroes whom they were all buying from Africans and Muslims in Africa.

It was this kind of hyperbole later picked up by American colonies low life traitors claiming enslavement by George III, even though they freely owned and trafficked in negro slaves.

Samuel Johnson made the point quite well.

Monday, February 11, 2019

SAMUEL JOHNSON

“How is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”

The Dutch Revolt prefigured in many ways the American Rebellion, and was at least as gratuitous and traitorous.

None of that rhetoric kept these enslaved white enslavers from fighting and displacing eachother when opportunity presented itself, in New England and New Amsterdam and the West Indies and South America in  the New World,  and between their respective trading empires elsewhere in the East.