America's Buried History of White Slavery
By Larry Romanoff,
November 26, 2020
Carte-de-Visite Portrait of Redeemed Slave Girl
At the start of the Civil War, Northerners distributed
portraits of redeemed slaves as a fundraiser and as propaganda. Several
different portraits of this girl were distributed, most having the same text:
"Redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence [at right]. Baptized in
Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863. Fannie Virginia
Casseopia Lawrence, a Redeemed SLAVE CHILD, 5 years of age. Entered according
to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by C.S. Lawrence, in the Clerk's Office of
the district Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
Photograph by Renowden, 65 Fulton Av. Brooklyn." (Photo by Van
Dorn/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
Long before the
Jewish slave traders traveled to Africa's Western coast to kidnap Black slaves,
they were abducting, shipping to America, and selling into slavery the White
working class of Britain, "the nation's surplus poor". The chronicle
of White slavery in America occupies one of the dirtiest shelves in the darkest
corner of suppressed American history. The US will always be a pathological
fairyland of myth until the knowledge of its historical truths becomes
widespread. Americans need to openly face and deal with the legacy of the
enormous extent to which they relished the abomination of slavery. A conspiracy
of the American elites and the Jewish lobby have made the entire story of white
slavery disappear completely from history, as if it never happened. One writer
called this historical sanitising "the height of academic and media
fraud". Several hundred years of White Slavery in America have been
obliterated from the collective memory by those who don't want to remind
Americans that most of their White settlers came not of their own free will,
but were instead kidnapped and shipped to the New World in chains. It is
well-documented that so many white slaves were forcibly shipped from England
that two-thirds of all immigrants arriving in America were slaves, safely
contradicting the foolish myth that settlers emigrating to America came
willingly and joyfully in search of freedom and opportunity; they clearly did
no such thing. It should also terminate the propagandised conviction in every
American heart that their nation was founded on God and Christian virtue,
liberty and democracy. So much mythical bullshit here, it's difficult to know
where to begin.
American history books are totally silent on the matter of these white slaves,
mostly of European stock with a great number of Irish, but also English and Scottish,
who were kidnapped or otherwise forcibly deported to the US as slave labor. In
fact, an examination of available documentation indicates that white slavery in
the Americas was a much more extensive operation than was black slavery, and
the numbers may be severely under-estimated. Several authors have claimed, and
I have seen reports that appear credible, that white slaves in America
outnumbered the black. In his book, They Were White and They Were Slaves,
Michael Hoffman wrote,
"Negro slavery was efficiently established in
colonial America because Black slaves were governed, organized and controlled
by the structures and organization that were first used to enslave and control
Whites. Black slaves were late-comers fitted into a system already developed."
The new nation had a need for cheap labor since the settlers were in the
process of exterminating the inhabitants of a large country and taking
possession of the lands, but lacked the workers to develop it. These white
slaves were more important than the blacks, in both number and economic
advantage. One white slave owner, Virginia planter John Pory, stated that white
(not black) slaves were the nation's "principal wealth". It was due
in large part to the overwhelming majority of white slaves that America built
its foundations of wealth, since slavery was exclusively a matter of economics
and profit. American capitalism was viciously predatory from the days of its
birth.
Taking advantage of a period of war with Britain, the slave traders reduced the
population of Ireland by more than 80% in a single decade, killing some and
abducting and selling the rest to America as slaves. They were shipped by the
hundreds of thousands and included not only adults but even the youngest of
children being forcibly taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the US
and the West Indies. One eyewitness to the mass kidnapping of poor Whites
estimated that from his personal knowledge alone, at least 10,000 were sold
into slavery every year from throughout Great Britain for perhaps two
centuries.
American history texts make reference to what is called indentured servitude,
as a kind of "benignly paternalistic system whereby colonial immigrants
spent a few years working off their passage and went on to better things".
The myth is that overseas passage was expensive and British and European
civilians willingly signed indentures requiring them to work for a few years to
pay off the cost of their passage, after which time they would be given land
and their freedom to pursue a glorious future in the New World. But it was no
such thing. There were indeed some indentured persons fitting this description,
but they were a minuscule minority with their conditions not better than that
suffered by all slaves. In fact, their indentures most often amounted to a life
sentence at hard labor, and with a life that would be preciously short when we
look at the hideous mortality rates. There are documented records of white
convicts asking to be hanged in Britain rather than sent to the gulag that was
America.
It is only the elite establishment in America today who present a
disingenuously impassioned propaganda to soften the brutality. Some Jewish and
other sympathetic historians pretend that this system of indentures, a kind of
privileged form of bound labor, was representative of the entire experience of
White bondage in America. But this definition would apply only to those
voluntarily binding themselves to service, and of these there were few, with
the contracted indenture being maintained only as a spurious cover for plain
and simple lifetime chattel slavery. Even the Whites referred to themselves as
slaves who were not better than cattle, and who were by all accounts degraded
chattels on a par with farm animals. There is evidence of many hopeful but
illiterate migrants who were duped into signing indentures, ignorant of the
actual content of the documents that legally designated them as personal
property that could be bought and sold, gambled away, or killed without concern
like any other animals. In any event, the indentures provided countless excuses
for the slave-owners to extend the period of servitude indefinitely, often by 7
years for the most minor of offenses and 10 or 15 years for others. Few
escaped.
The slave traders exerted grand efforts in inducing free whites to sign
indentures, supposedly placing themselves in 'temporary' slavery with the
promise of 50 acres of farmland at the end of the indenture term, but this was
nothing more than a despicable racket. The promised lands were entrusted to the
slave-owner on the understanding the land titles would later pass to the
slaves, but these land rights could be forfeited for almost any reason,
including laziness, with the land titles then becoming the master's rightful
property. Many slave-owners purchased large numbers of these so-called
indentured persons and quickly concocted excuses to seize all the entrusted
lands, occasionally with a gift and a wink to the relevant authorities.
Certainly hundreds of thousands and potentially millions of acres of fertile
land were obtained in this manner, with many slave-owners accumulating vast
estates and great wealth, which is precisely why this "benignly
paternalistic" system was created. Indentured servitude was never more
than an immense and cruel fraud.
One author wrote that historians deliberately maintain the fallacy that
"wherever White 'servants' constituted the majority of servile laborers,
they worked in privileged or even luxurious conditions which were forbidden to
Blacks. In truth, White Slaves were often restricted to doing the dirty,
backbreaking field work while Blacks and even Indians were taken into the
plantation mansion houses to work as domestics." A Major named Mordecai
Manuel Noah, who was described as "the most distinguished Jewish layman of
his time", promoted slavery by equating it with freedom. Incredibly,
he made pronouncements like this:
"There is liberty under the name of slavery. A
field Negro has his cottage, his wife, and children, his easy task, his little
patch of corn and potatoes, his garden and fruit, which are his revenue and
property. The house servant has handsome clothing, his luxurious meals, his
admitted privacy, a kind master, and an indulgent and frequently fond
mistress."
David W. Galenson wrote a treatise titled 'White
Slavery entitled White Servitude in Colonial America', in which he stated,
"European men and women could exercise choice both in deciding whether to
migrate to the colonies and in choosing possible destinations." These
comments, and so many more like them, are pure fiction, very large lies meant
to erase the evil of centuries. White slaves were obtained from the poorest
levels of British society who were regarded as expendable by the ruling class.
Economists advocated the enslavement of poor Whites because they saw them as
the cheapest and most effective way to develop the colonies in the New World
while ridding themselves of the surplus poor who were "unprofitable"
to England. As American agriculture expanded, landowners demanded the legalisation
of the practice of kidnapping poor Whites for slavery. Parliamentary
legislation was passed to specifically permit the capture of White children,
with this becoming what we can call an "open hunting season" on the
poor of Great Britain as well as anyone the British aristocracy happened to
despise.
Given the secrecy of the entire matter of white slavery, it isn't surprising
that few are aware that a great many of the slaves deported to the Americas or
Australia were not convicts as the record states, but were actually political
prisoners and political dissidents, and many more were prisoners of war.
England in particular made a point of rounding up every political dissident of
substance, imprisoning them, then deporting them as 'convicts'. It was also a
policy of England to cooperate with the slave traders in permitting what were
called "slave-hunting gangs" who roamed freely throughout the country
and vacuumed up virtually anyone not looking rich, this process viewed with
much approval by the British aristocracy. Henry Cromwell not only eliminated
about 85% of the population of Ireland within a decade, but was especially
determined to capture and deport all Irish women: "Concerning the young
[Irish] women, although we must use force in takinge them up, yet it beinge so
much for their owne goode, and likely to be of soe great advantage to the
publique, it is not in the least doubted, that you may have such number of them
as you thinke fitt to make use uppon this account." He also ordered all the
homeless poor throughout Great Britain to be captured and deported by the slave
traders, for being "unprofitable to the Realm". Laws permitted the
seizure of any persons in any part of England who appeared to be vagrant, or
who were begging, and to have them conveyed to a British port and shipped to
America to be sold. Accordingly, judges ordered the enslavement and shipping to
America the total number of "those who made life unpleasant for the
British upper class". Westerners are generally aware that Australia was
populated almost entirely with convicts from British prisons, but few are aware
that the New World of America was initially populated in the same way from the
same sources. The government of England virtually emptied its prisons,
transporting most of its convicts, both men and women, to America to be sold to
plantation owners and other industrialists, and brothels were forcibly emptied
to provide unwilling human breeding stock for American slave-owners.
The trade in White slaves was a natural one for Jewish merchants in England who
imported sugar and tobacco from the American colonies. Whites kidnapped in
Britain could be exchanged for these goods in America, permitting the merchant
ships to convey cargo in both directions. But the disposability of these humans
in the minds of these inhuman merchants, staggers the heart. There are
documented reports that one ship dumped more than 1,300 white slaves into the
Atlantic Ocean to ensure an adequate food supply for the crew. Other documented
reports tell of 20 or 30 children at a time being tossed into the ocean to
drown. There was also a provision in many contracts that white slaves were sold
in advance to plantation owners who would be responsible for full payment
"if the slaves survived beyond the halfway point of the journey".
Apparently ship captains regularly stocked sufficient food for only the first
half of their ocean voyage with the intention of starving the slaves for the
remainder of the trip. One documented record stated, "Jammed into filthy
holds, manacled, starved and abused, they suffered and died during the
crossings in gross numbers." Nobody bothered to record the number of
deaths. Even those fortunate enough to land in the New World would fare little
better, suffering a shocking mortality rate. Sixty percent of all white slaves
reaching the Americas did not survive their first year. One clergyman visited a
plantation outpost and described the scene as "a land of the living dead,
a vault full of living corpses". A policeman referred to them as "vermin-haunted
heaps of rags". He claimed that when he opened a door into one of their
hovels, he saw, "Ten, twenty, thirty, who can count them? Men,
women, children, for the most part naked, heaped upon the floor like maggots in
a cheese factory, a spectral rising, unshrouded, from a grave of rags".
White slaves who rebelled or became disobedient were punished in the most
savage and inhuman ways. Owners would hang their slaves by their hands and set
their feet on fire. Often, they were burned alive, with their severed heads
then placed on pikes in a public marketplace to serve as a warning to other
slaves.
American slave-owners quickly began breeding the white women for both their own
personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves
slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an
Irish woman managed to obtained her freedom, her children would remain slaves
and she would seldom abandon them, thereby remaining in servitude. Other
American masters found a better way to use these white women - who were in many
cases girls as young as ten or twelve - to increase their market value by
breeding them with African men to produce slaves with a "mulatto"
complexion which brought a higher price than their Irish livestock. This
practice of interbreeding White females with African men became so long-term
and widespread that legislation was passed forbidding the practice because this
production of offspring interfered with the profits of a large Jewish slave trader.
The more perverse versions of Judaism also played a part. One of the reasons
the African slave trade began was that African slaves were "not tainted
with the stain of the hated Catholic theology" that infected the Irish. In
part because of this, African slaves became more expensive to purchase and were
often treated far better than their White counterparts. Black slaves were
indeed cruelly used but not often worked to death as were the Whites who were
available for almost nothing and were fully expendable. Upon arrival in
America, these White British would be stripped naked, put in chains, and
paraded on the auction floor where they were probed, examined and sold like
livestock.
Particularly shocking was the abduction and enslavement of a great many white
children who were openly seized from orphanages, workhouses and the streets,
and shipped to America to labor in factories and plantations. There were
countless shipments of these doomed children to America for perhaps 300 years,
with very few living to become adults. In one case, when a census was taken in
Virginia only seven children were listed as alive from the many thousands
kidnapped that year. All the rest were dead, and statistics for other years are
equally grim, with sometimes only three or four surviving that year. Orphan
children as well as the children of poor parents were targeted for the White
slave trade, these latter being described as a "plague" and a
"rowdy element". The London police were instructed to seize any children
found on the street and take them to a containment facility where they would
await shipment to America. Often, their only crime was being in the street when
a constable happened to pass by. The Jewish slave-traders specifically targeted
poor families, demanding they surrender their children for sale on threat of
being starved into submission by the withdrawal of all relief assistance from
any source. They could give up their children to the slave-traders, or be
forced to starve and die. This centuries-long inhuman use of "disposable"
children was the beginning of the American fondness for child labor which began
with the agricultural plantations, but which was soon extended to American
factories.
Another portion of America's history that has been even more deeply buried is
its tradition of American natives as slaves. A great many natives were taken,
especially as children or youths, and put into slavery by the European
settlers. It is difficult to locate authoritative texts and witness
testimonials on this issue because the historical record is so scattered, but
it is clear these were not isolated incidents and occurred widely in some parts
of America. I have seen no accurate count of native slaves, but one portion of
one state alone was reliably reported to have more than 50,000 native slaves.
The entire matter has been written out of American history because Americans
don't want to deal with it.
But even more than local slavery, countless thousands
of native adults were captured and shipped to Spain and Portugal where they
were sold into slavery. Historian Howard Zinn made this observation in one of
his books: "In the year 1495, [Columbus and his men] went on a great slave
raid, rounded up fifteen hundred Arawak men, women, and children, put them in
pens guarded by Spaniards and dogs, then picked the five hundred best specimens
to load onto ships. Of those five hundred, two hundred died en route. The rest
arrived alive in Spain and were put up for sale by the archdeacon of the town,
who reported that, although the slaves were "naked as the day they were
born", they showed "no more embarrassment than animals." This
was within two years of Columbus first having landed in the New World, and his
slave business progressed from there, lasting for more than 300 years until it
eventually gave way to the trading in black and white slaves. Christopher
Columbus was without doubt the first, or one of the first, slave traders in the
New World, effecting his trade in both directions. Again, I have seen no
accurate tally of the totals of natives sold in slavery in Europe and the
Caribbean, but it was certainly substantial, sufficiently so as to virtually
eliminate some native tribes. In fact, slavery was one of the main factors
contributing to the disappearance of the American natives.
Christopher Columbus is today venerated throughout the
US with a Columbus Day holiday and even Washington's 'District of Columbia' is
named after him. To support their narrative, the sanitisers of history created
the myth of Queen Isabella of Spain pawning her crown jewels to finance his
voyages of exploration, but none of that is true. Columbus, whose real name was
Cristobol Colon, was a Jewish adventurer and slave trader financed by wealthy
Jewish businessmen, whose discovery of the new world set in motion a program of
genocide that covered all the Americas, exterminating more than 125 million
people including the entire Maya, Inca and Aztec civilisations, as well as the
Carib Indians and 98% of American aboriginal peoples. The newly-founded America
continued the policy of ruthless genocide that Columbus began, where mass
extermination was implemented to clear land for white settlers. The genocide
against American Natives was the largest and longest-lasting genocidal campaign
in human history. "It started, like all genocides, with the oppressor
treating the victims as sub-humans, and continued until almost all Natives were
wiped off the face of the earth, along with much of the language, culture and
religion of hundreds of tribes." By about 1900 the native population had
been reduced to 2.5% of its original numbers, reduced from about 20 million to
a little over 200,000, and 98% of their land had been lost. This was from a
conscious and deliberate continuation of a 500-year policy of genocide designed
to "extirpate this excrable race" of people.
Many Americans, and many American textbooks make great efforts to deflect
responsibility for these events, claiming the native deaths were not planned or
were not part of any government program, or that they were due to natural
disease or other factors. These claims are lies. For many years, US State
Governments offered large rewards for the scalps of dead Indians. It was so
lucrative that in many areas murdering Indians became a flourishing business
and one of the best-paying jobs in America. The British commander Lord Amherst
famously wrote about a plan to infect Native Americans by giving them
smallpox-infected blankets, a policy that the Americans carried out with great
success in many parts of the US, since the Natives had no natural immunity to
many Western diseases. "With Bible passages in their hands to justify
their every move, the Puritans began their march inland from the seaside
communities where, joined by British settlers, they seized the land, took the
strong and young Natives as slaves to work the land and killed the rest.
Villages were set on fire with sleeping Natives burned alive, and many were
sold into slavery - another matter that American history books avoid."
The US Founding Fathers and the great Presidents of the United States shared
several common characteristics - they were all deeply racist, believed in white
supremacy, and were sociopathic genocidal thugs, reflected in their active
promotion of the extinction of all native peoples. The Great American President
George Washington referred to the natives as "wolves and beasts of
prey" who deserved nothing from the whites but "total ruin", and
called for their total destruction. According to him, Americans should
"lay waste all the settlements around, that the country may not be merely
overrun, but destroyed". And don't "listen to any overture of peace
before the total ruin of their settlements is effected". It is documented
that Washington instructed his troops to not only kill all the Indians they
could find, but to skin the bodies of these dead Natives "from the hips
downward to make boot tops or leggings". By some reports, Washington was
so determined a homicidal maniac that he spent 80% of his young government's
revenue on this ethnic cleansing. And then, not so many years ago, the US
government proudly issued a postage stamp commemorating this ruthless campaign
of mass murder. Only in America.
US President Theodore Roosevelt, a Nobel peace prize winner and great American
honored today by all, offered this opinion of America's native peoples:
"All men of sane and wholesome thought must dismiss with impatient
contempt the plea that these continents should be reserved for the use of
scattered savage tribes, whose life was but a few degrees less meaningless,
squalid, and ferocious than that of the wild beasts with whom they held joint
ownership". This great American hero also told us that America's
extermination of the Indians and the theft of their land "was ultimately
beneficial as it was inevitable". He said, "I don't go so far as to
think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of
ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the
tenth". It was also Roosevelt who declared, "The most ultimately
righteous of all wars is a war with savages" and openly spoke of cementing
the rule of "dominant world races." US President Andrew Jackson, not
to be outdone by other Presidents, "supervised the mutilation of 800 or
more Creek Indian corpses" that his troops had killed. Another great US
President, Thomas Jefferson, wrote that "Indian resistance must be met
with the hatchet. And if ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against
any tribe we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated. We shall
destroy all of them". It was US President Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of
the great Americans, who ordered 38 Sioux natives hung to death on Christmas
Eve for leaving their reservation (internment camp) in search of food. It seems
almost trite to point out that there were serious laws banning intermarriage
between white Americans and the native people, laws which were only repealed by
the US Supreme Court around 1970.
The best way to forget history is to rewrite it. Since being spoken by some of
America's favorite leaders and heros, these words have conveniently been
forgotten by US historians who prefer to write their own history. Wikipedia
disingenuously tells us the American natives today are 'flourishing' on their
lands, but the truth is rather different. Almost all native tribes have been
destroyed, all culture lost, and the few remaining are living on isolated
lands, some subsisting by hunting and fishing, some running gambling casinos,
and many performing insulting tribal dances to entertain tourists. Many are
burned-out, desolated drunks, and Native Indians have the highest suicide rate
of all peoples in the world today. It is to the everlasting good fortune of
Tibetans that America was never successful in its persistent CIA-inspired
efforts to 'free' Tibet. If it had succeeded, Tibet today would be the same
haunted graveyard as is much of America.
As occurred in all the Americas, these transplanted Europeans waged a
centuries-long genocidal war against the native inhabitants of the lands of
America, eventually exterminating virtually all of them while confiscating
their lands and resources. American history books are silent on these points as
well, entirely ignoring the commercial and financial benefits to the rise of
the American elite industrial class and the incalculable advantage to the
economic development of the US. As with slavery, this colonisation and genocide
was an economic issue, not a moral one, and was absolutely indispensable to the
development of the wealth of the American ruling class. Anywhere in the world,
if a group of industrialised rich enter a nation, exterminate its inhabitants
and confiscate its wealth and resources, then for four hundred years employ
unpaid slave labor to develop their industry and commerce, it would not be a
surprise for this group to emerge as a wealthy and powerful nation. In fact,
this was the entire theory behind the imperialism of the British and Dutch East
India Companies as well as the European nations who specialised in
exterminating native populations and plundering their wealth. These practices
were quickly extended to the Americas where the settlers of the New World were
not different in any respect. White supremacy held the peoples of all other
nations in contempt, and greed accounted for the rest.
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Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. His writing has been translated into more than 20 languages and is available on more than 100 foreign-language websites around the world. He can be contacted at: 2186604556@qq.com.
Larry Romanoff is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new COVID-19 anthology ”When China Sneezes”.
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