America’s Buried
History of White Slavery
By
Larry Romanoff, February 18, 2023
The best way to
forget history is to rewrite it. And in the rewriting, to carefully delete
references to any historical events or circumstances we find uncomfortable.
Thus, 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.[1] 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,[2] 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. 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 may indeed
have been a few such 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. The fact is that if this indenture process
were really the standard, then thousands of the contracts would have survived
and our museums would be full of them. There is no evidence of this. 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 very
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. It was Henry Cromwell who 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 historical
record tells us that “American slave-owners quickly began breeding the white
women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit”, but
this expression denies a brutal truth. The white women, especially the Irish,
were simply stripped naked and repeatedly raped until they were pregnant, then
kept in that condition. 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.
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.
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.
Irish Slaves
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It appears to be
generally accepted that Ireland was severely depopulated in the past, the most
quoted percentage reduction being 80%. One useful article on England's Irish
slaves:[3] The current standard narrative attempts with
some vigor to attribute this severe population reduction to disease or famine,
but the reality appears to be that kidnapping for slavery was the main reason.
There are sufficient records to tell us that the Irish were abducted and
shipped by the hundreds of thousands, this including 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. We can certainly credit Henry Cromwell for
much of this, since he seemed 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.” There is no way to misunderstand the man's words, and Cromwell
wasn't referring to "indentured servitude" in these remarks.
The first white
slave sales document was drawn up in 1612, seven years before the first African
slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. In 1625 James II officially decreed that
all Irish prisoners be sent to the West Indies (Caribbean) and sold to
plantation owners. The first ships deported 30,000 Irish, by the mid-1600s they
constituted the majority of slaves in the colonies.[4] A Portuguese website gives us the following:
"The proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners to be sent
abroad and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. In 1600, the Irish
were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of
Montserrat’s total population were Irish slaves. Ireland quickly became a
huge source of human cattle for English traders. Most of the first slaves
in the New World were actually white."[5]
As I wrote earlier,
one of the tenets of propaganda is that we have a powerful tendency to believe
the first thing we read or hear about a topic, especially if those statements
are repeated a number of times. Later, even when faced with incontrovertible
proof, facts that cannot be disputed, proving that our now-accepted beliefs are
in fact false, we are surprisingly reluctant to change our minds, and we will “hesitate
and waver and continue to believe there must be some other explanation”.
Our minds are apparently unable to accept that we have believed lies. This is
important because the Jews use this to great advantage to pre-empt the
discovery of their atrocities and prevent rational thought. Typically, if
knowledge of their past crimes is showing signs of escaping historical
confinement, the Jews will use this propaganda tactic to “get there first”,
with some Jewish author quickly writing a book or treatise on the subject that
is replete with lies and falsified history that attempts to exclude the Jews
from involvement and, if at all possible, to blame the victim.
There are many
indications that the Jews are making efforts to either eliminate awareness and
discussion of the Irish slave trade or to hopelessly confuse the issue so that
the focus is lost and conclusions become difficult or impossible. Wikipedia is
naturally one of the leaders in this effort. True to its Jewish roots and lying
as always, Wikipedia has an article titled the "Irish slaves myth"[6], even the title preparing readers to disbelieve
anything about Irish slaves when it is Wikipedia that needs to be disbelieved.
Their treatise refers to a book by Dr. Michael A. Hoffman II, titled "They
Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of
Whites in Early America". Wikipedia conveniently tells us this book
was published by "a conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier",
who also "blamed Jews for the Atlantic slave trade" - in which
Jews were clearly very involved. Wikipedia also tells us (as usual) that "The
book has been described as shoddily researched" and "highly
problematic". If you recall, these were the same accusations made
about the books by James Bacque that revealed the mass murders of Germans in
American concentration camps after WWII. These accusations of holocaust deniers
writing shoddy history books is part of a standard template when Jews don't
want the public accessing information that reveals Jewish crimes. Wikipedia
further informs its readers that Dr. Hoffman presents a "careless
blurring of the lines between slavery and indentured servitude", but
in fact it is Wiki and its brethren who deliberately blur the lines to disguise
the fact that "indentures" are merely today's euphemism meant
to bury the truths of white slavery.
Wikipedia's Italian
website on this issue tells us, "Ireland has always been subject to strong
emigration, so much so that today it is estimated that ten times more people of
Irish origin live in the USA than in Ireland. In the eighteenth century about
9-10 million Irish left Ireland. Of these, the poorest went to Britain,
especially to the Liverpool area, while those who could afford it, about 5
million, moved to the United States of America. From the nineteenth century,
following the Great Potato Famine, emigration became massive: in 1890 40% of
all Irish people lived abroad. Nowadays there are about 80 000 000 people in
the world who claim to have Irish ancestry, and of these only 4 700 000 live in
the Republic of Ireland."[7]
Wiki then further
tells us, "In 1800 the phenomenon of emigration from Ireland to the
United States of America, was caused by religious persecution in Ireland, the
excessive cost of living in Ireland and the great famine that struck the
country. The phenomenon was massive: in fact, in ten years from the beginning
of this phenomenon, the population of the United States doubled."
That's bringing us a bit closer to the truth, but not sufficiently. As with
other Jewish websites, Wikipedia equates abduction and slavery with "indentured
servitude" and "emigration".
Another indication
is that Global Research published an article by John Martin on the Irish
slave trade, "The Slaves that Time Forgot"[8], but then suddenly published two other articles
partially denying the existence of this trade. GR then informs us that the
original article "skims the surface of a complex historical process
which has been the object of critical debate, controversy and confusion",
and that the subsequent articles were posted "in order to promote
further discussion" and "with a view to providing a broader
historical background". Uh huh. Either that, or someone put a lot of
pressure on GR to either revise their position or be removed from the Internet.
Perhaps the best
indication is an article introducing an Irishman named Liam Hogan that
is published on the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center, of all
places. For those who don't know, the SPLC is a totally Jewish organisation that is
heavily political and with a thoroughly nasty reputation. Hogan apparently works (or worked) in a public
library in Ireland and is presented to us as an "independent scholar", the SPLC article with a headline telling
us (like Wikipedia) that Irish slaves are "a myth" and serve only
as a "meme" for "racists online".[9] It leaves us to guess who are the "racists"
and against whom they express their racism. The article refers to a series of
essays written by Hogan that purport to debunk the entire topic of Irish
slaves, but they actually do no such thing. I have to say that Hogan's essays
appear fundamentally dishonest to me because all he really does is demonstrate
that some photos used in support of slavery articles are drawn from unrelated
sources, and that is entirely irrelevant to the topic. But the point is that
this organisation is becoming actively involved in pre-empting open discussion
of the Irish slave trade and, given their biases, this would happen only if
Jews were concerned about the gradual revelation of their participation in this
travesty. Without this fear, there would be no need for their involvement, nor
for Wikipedia to take such a strong stand in contradiction of the available
facts.
But there is
another matter here, of much interest. Ireland, of all countries in the
world, apparently has no population statistics prior to about 1850, and even
the records from that late period appear to have been fabricated and forged.
All the country's population figures are gone. In the cities and towns,
villages, government offices, churches, cemeteries, everything seems to have
disappeared. It should be obvious this could not have happened by accident. One
office in one location might suffer a disaster, but when all the population
statistics for an entire nation disappear, it must be the result of willful
action, and carried out by a considerable number of people. It should also be
obvious that this could not have been a domestic enterprise: no government
would take upon itself the task of destroying all of its own population records
for all of its history. This means the destruction of the records would have to
involve a foreign agent, and this leads us back to our Jewish slave traders. If
you can't prove that Ireland had people, you can't prove those people were
abducted as slaves. We have no direct proof, but the main beneficiary of the
destruction of this evidence would certainly be the Jewish slave traders, and
it should be remembered that the Khazar Jews were the most active slave traders
in the world for hundreds of years, and certainly during this time frame. In
fact, the Jews were bitterly hated by citizens of many nations for their
abductions and slave trading, one of the main reasons the Jews were expelled
from so many countries - and not because of prejudice or "anti-Semitism"
as we are so often told today.
Also, since there
is evidence the slave traders were very active in England and Scotland, there
is no logical reason to assume they ignored Ireland, and the severe
depopulation would appear to speak for itself.
There is one
website that deals with the Ireland population issue.[10] Its information is scattered but it does
provide bits of enlightenment. It states, "There are no reliable
population figures for Ireland before 1841", and that "The
only hard data that has survived is the 1841 and 1851 censuses, but the
accuracy of these has been questioned." However, it then pretends (as
do many websites) to show Irish population graphs going back as far as 1200,
which are of necessity entirely fiction. The same website tells us that
"Emigration has been a feature of Irish history more than almost any other
country in the world", accenting this with a claim that "This
is shown by the fact that, apart from the 5 million people in Ireland, there are
an estimated 55 million people worldwide who can trace their ancestry back to
Ireland". That would be remarkable, if true, and would certainly
support the thesis of millions of Irish being abducted as slaves over the
years. The website also states that - in support of its "emigration"
claim - the Irish accounted for a third of all "voluntary traffic"
across the Atlantic. The fraction may be true, but the "voluntary"
assertion has no supporting evidence, and I'm not sure I would classify
abduction and slave-trading as "emigration".
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NOTES
[1] The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White”
Slaves
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076
[2] They Were White and They Were Slaves
https://ia804606.us.archive.org/13/items/michael-a.-hoffman-ii/They%20Were%20White%20and%20They%20Were%20S%20-%20Michael%20A.%20Hoffman%20II.pdf
[3] England’s Irish Slaves
https://www.globalresearch.ca/englands-irish-slaves/5529864
[4] NOBLE: THE ENGLISH TRADE OF WHITE SLAVES –
IRISH – IN THE AMERICAS.
https://www.marcotosatti.com/2019/07/18/nobile-la-tratta-inglese-degli-schiavi-bianchi-irlandesi-nelle-americhe/
[5] IRISH: THE
FORGOTTEN WHITE SLAVES
https://tempocaminhado.blogspot.com/2020/08/irlandeses-os-escravos-brancos.html
[6] Irish slaves myth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_slaves_myth
[7] Irish
emigration
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigrazione_irlandese
[8] The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White”
Slaves. The Slaves That Time Forgot
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076
[9] HOW THE MYTH OF THE "IRISH SLAVES"
BECAME A FAVORITE MEME OF RACISTS ONLINE
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/04/19/how-myth-irish-slaves-became-favorite-meme-racists-online
[10] Population in Ireland
http://grantonline.com/grant-family-genealogy/Records/population/population-ireland.htm
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