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little known fact, white slavery in America before black
Posted by Luckydog of FL on 7/10/20 12:36pm Msg #75331
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/the_forgotten_history_of_britains_white_slaves_in_america.html
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/11/30/most-slaves-in-america-were-white/

We have BLM BUT did you know we also had white slaves in America as well? Is this something forgotten?

These white slaves in the New World consisted of street children plucked from London's back alleys, prostitutes, and impoverished migrants searching for a brighter future and willing to sign up for indentured servitude. Convicts were also persuaded to avoid lengthy sentences and executions on their home soil by enslavement in the British colonies. The much maligned Irish, viewed as savages worthy of ethnic cleansing and despised for their rejection of Protestantism, also made up a portion of America's first slave population, as did Quakers, Cavaliers, Puritans, Jesuits, and others.

Around 1618 at the start of their colonial slave trade, the English began by seizing and shipping to Virginia impoverished children, even toddlers, from London slums. Some impoverished parents sought a better life for their offspring and agreed to send them, but most often, the children were sent despite their own protests and those of their families. At the time, the London authorities represented their actions as an act of charity, a chance for a poor youth to apprentice in America, learn a trade, and avoid starvation at home. Tragically, once these unfortunate youngsters arrived, 50% of them were dead within a year after being sold to farmers to work the fields.

A few months after the first shipment of children, the first African slaves were shipped to Virginia. Interestingly, no American market existed for African slaves until late in the 17th century. Until then, black slave traders typically took their cargo to Bermuda.





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 little known fact, white slavery in America before black - Luckydog on 7/10/20 12:36pm
 Re: little known fact, white slavery in America before black - bagger on 7/10/20 1:17pm
 This is simply another attempt . . . - HisHughness on 7/10/20 3:00pm
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 Re: This is simply another attempt . . . - Luckydog on 7/10/20 3:48pm
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 Re: This is simply another attempt . . . - Luckydog on 7/10/20 7:43pm
 Re: This is simply another attempt . . . - HisHughness on 7/10/20 8:02pm
 Re: This is simply another attempt . . . - Luckydog on 7/10/20 9:19pm
 Re: This is simply another attempt . . . -  JanetK_CA on 7/11/20 1:36am
 Re: This is simply another attempt . . . - bagger on 7/11/20 7:55am
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