Friday, October 10, 2008

The Forgotten Slaves: Whites in Servitude in Early America

Up to one-half of all the arrivals in the American colonies were Whites slaves and they were America's first slaves. These Whites were slaves for life, long before Blacks ever were. This slavery was even hereditary. White children born to White slaves were enslaved too.
Whites were auctioned on the block with children sold and separated from their parents and wives sold and separated from their husbands. Free Black property owners strutted the streets of northern and southern American cities while White slaves were worked to death in the sugar mills of Barbados and Jamaica and the plantations of Virginia. (MORE...)
by Michael A. Hoffman II

** All I can say is that you don't hear white people screaming about reparations!!**

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