White Slaves (not "servants")
Euphemisms and weasel words employed to conceal forced white labor
I’m at work on a sequel to my book, They Were White and They Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America (scroll down the web page to locate it). The new volume will be titled, “The Ruling Class War on Poor and Working Class Whites.”
Nothing in the book now underway is intended to detract from the unprecedented and undeniable misery and suffering experienced by black people in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
The Cryptocracy has a vested interested in sowing division among races within the working classes which have common interests and which are a formidable power when united.
I have observed the clandestine operation of white supremacy functioning inside woke ideology, as propelled by the Cryptocracy: rotten public schools where black youth are are left to rot while charter schools are obstructed, media that promote illiteracy, degrading music, drug use and promiscuity among blacks, and of course the consistent meretricious identification of black people, the heirs of the kings and queens of Africa, as a hereditary “slave race.” The occult roots of that viciously demeaning lie, which is calculated to eviscerate black self-esteem, date to antiquity.
The tricknology has it that any exploration of the documented and largely unknown history of whites in chains, or of the massive slave-catching operations of some of the pre-Columbian tribes of the Americas, diminishes the record of black agony and oppression.
In the chronicle of white enslavement the court historians have adopted an Orwellian lexicon that conceals unfree white toil behind the weasel words, “convict labor.”
For example, the unconscionable transportation of the surplus poor and working class people of Britain to Australia, is exculpated and explained away by describing them as “felons and convicts.”
There’s a remarkable lack of curiosity about what constituted a “felon” or “convict” and whether those terms were unjustly applied in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. This obtuse and cowardly avoidance is an indictment of the teaching stupid profession in our “elite” universities.
The criminal code of England in the eighteenth century was crafted to control, or when necessary kill, or expel the white poor and working classes. Their revolutionary potential was greatly feared. For that reason they were hanged on gallows and gibbets often on trivial pretexts, or forcibly dumped as “convict” labor in British America; and after the 1776 Revolution, in Australia.
This was accomplished by turning a number of misdemeanors into felonies — stealing lace from a shop, poaching deer on an estate, or in the case of Jeremy Bentham’s butler, lifting silverware from his mansion. The poor people who committed these infractions are the ones who conformist historians dehumanize and dismiss as “convicts.”
Our nation’s universities harbor a professorcracy that is eager to cooperate with the predatory capitalists of yesteryear in continuing the pretense that these penurious people were dangerous felons fortunate to sweat out their days as “servants” thousands of miles from home.
The women swept up by the “Christian government” in these bogus “felon” convictions were invariably raped or prostituted aboard ship and afterward in the colonies, where they were forced to labor and sometimes worked to death, when they didn’t perish from venereal disease or physical assaults.
In studying the history of white slavery in Britain and its colonies one must be cognizant of the time frame under examination. In British America in the early decades of the seventeenth century whites comprised the majority of the slaves. “Indentures” (employment obligations contracted for a limited time), played only a small part in their arrival and toil on these shores, in that the majority of those in bondage were victims of mass kid-"nabbing” (kidnapping) enterprises in the major port cities of England and Scotland. These abductions were largely directed by their own so-called “Christian” kinsmen.
By the eighteenth century masses of Africans were enslaved in the West Indies and the thirteen colonies and white servitude became equal parts kidnap victims, the indentured, and “convicts” sentenced by British courts to “transportation” and servitude.
In the nineteenth century white bondage was mostly indentured, as for example in the case of an often-whipped young North Carolina minion who fled from his servitude to Tennessee, with a reward on his fugitive head. This was the future Vice-President of the United States, Andrew Johnson.
“You cannot describe every white servant as a slave, Hoffman!”
And my critics ought not continue to describe every white slave by the euphemism servant, which is the nearly universal misdirection promulgated by “the experts.”
In the Viking Age the progeny of enslaved whites were believed to carry a genetic taint, and that folk belief was still extant as late as the early twentieth century, in addition to the fact that a Christian enslaving a fellow Christian was a serious transgression of Biblical law. Consequently, due to the shame and disgrace associated with white enslavement, no matter what the circumstances of the whites in bondage, they were invariably misidentified as “servants,” even in advertisements that featured their sale, such as one by Thomas Hodge, a Virginia dealer in forced white labor:
“Just arrived at Leeds Town the ship Justitia with about 100 healthy servants, men, women, and boys, among which are many tradesman, blacksmith, shoemakers, Taylor's, house, carpenters, and joiners, a Cooper, a bricklayer and plasterer, a painter, a watchmaker and glazier, several silversmiths, weavers, a jeweler, and many others. The sale will commence on Tuesday, 2 April at Leedstown on the Rappahannock river. A reasonable credit will be allowed, giving bond with approved security to Thomas Hodge.”
I have no issue with the US government paying reparations to the descendants of American black slaves. The Federal government built the U.S. Holocaust Museum during the administration of Ronald Reagan to honor a tragic massacre that occurred in Europe, without first having built a national museum to commemorate the epoch of the grotesque subjugation of African people on American soil.
Let us remember that the US government has been an enthusiastic supporter and promoter of the reparations which the German people were ordered to pay for decades to the survivors of the holocaust. How is it that reparations are due to one and not the other?
Having read the wretched diaries and letters of whites enslaved in America from 1607 through the 1790s, in which their pleas for freedom, and relief from beatings, rape, starvation, chains and unimaginable degradation, were unavailing, justice requires that any reparations plan includes their descendants as well.
I am not seeking to match suffering for suffering.
I refuse to exploit victimhood to gain moral superiority over others: “My people have experienced torment, therefore you must kneel before me.”
Victims can and do turn into victimizers. Witness the brutal oppression of the Palestinians by descendants of those who the Nazis extruded, shot, or crammed into typhus-infested death camps.
Blaise Pascal stated that the two great truths of the Bible were the depravity of human nature and the redemption of human nature through Jesus Christ. Utopians (Fascists and Communists are always utopians), maintain otherwise, and fantasize that human nature can be perfected, and that victims will never become victimizers, as if history were not a chronicle of that very circumstance, repeated cyclically through the mists of time.
The real history of America has yet to be written. Millions think they know it, yet it is only beginning to be explored in ways that shatter every preconception and surprise us with the delights of discovery.
People love real history for the adventure it represents — the advancement of unforeseen knowledge which undercuts and overthrows all the vested interests which seek to maintain us in ignorance, and fear of one another.
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Historian Michael Hoffman is an independent scholar who defies labels and categories. He’s the author of ten books, three of which are banned while others are under threat of suppression, and 122 issues of his newsletter studies (1997-2022). Those who cannot debate or answer him seek to bankrupt him.
A former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press, his books include Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare(2001), Judaism Discovered (2008), Usury in Christendom: The Mortal Sin that Was and Now is Not (2013); The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome (2017), Adolf Hitler: Enemy of the German People (2019), Twilight Language (2021) and three other dissident volumes. His contrarian histories have also been translated and published in Japanese and French. He hosts the podcast, Michael Hoffman’s Revisionist History®
Twitter: @HoffmanMichaelA
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It is startling how one need not reach very far back into history for evidence that shatters "settled" historical narrative and shocks our sense of basic decency. I have been reading about the so-called "Orphan Train" of the late 1800s -1920s: another wonderful social engineering program in which children of the beleaguered working poor were rounded up, enticed or "nabbed" in the "overcrowded Eastern cities and transported to the midwest and western states where they were farmed out as "orphans" (very few of whom actually were! The majority had two living parents) to work on farms or God only knows where else; in effect, as forced labor. My own father knew children who had been brought to Kansas in this way and of course, unprotected and penniless and far from home and family, they were abused. It is deeply painful ... and soul-wearying... to see how much of history is about human beings enslaving other human beings.