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#64 Rogers, J. A.. 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof
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Date: July 20, 2019 05:59PM
64. The first slaves held in the United States were not black, but white. They were Europeans, mostly British, who died like flies on the slave-ships across. On one voyage 1,100 perished out of 1,500. At another time 350 out of 400. In Virginia, white servitude was for a limited period, but was sometimes extended to life. In the West Indies, particularly in the case of the Irish, it was for life. White people were sold in the United States up to 1826, fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, was a runaway, and was advertised for in the newspapers.
For the transportation of white slaves to America and their sale see, James Oneal: The Workers in American History, Chap., “The White Slave Trade.” He quotes: “One ship sailing.…in 1745 with 400 Germans of whom only 50 lived to see free America. Still another bearing 1500 lost 1100 from deaths on the voyage.” (p. 64, New York, 1921.) Pastor Kunze, writing at that time said, “packed like herring and sold as slaves.”
J. B. McMaster, noted historian says of the white slaves, “The newcomer became in the eyes of the law a slave and in both the civil and the criminal code was classed with the Negro slaves and Indians.…They were worked hard, were dressed in the cast off clothes of their owners and might be flogged as often as the master or mistress thought necessary.” In other words, the exploiters were no respecters of color or race. (See also No. 67 of this work.)
For the transportation of white slaves to America and their sale see, James Oneal: The Workers in American History, Chap., “The White Slave Trade.” He quotes: “One ship sailing.…in 1745 with 400 Germans of whom only 50 lived to see free America. Still another bearing 1500 lost 1100 from deaths on the voyage.” (p. 64, New York, 1921.) Pastor Kunze, writing at that time said, “packed like herring and sold as slaves.”
J. B. McMaster, noted historian says of the white slaves, “The newcomer became in the eyes of the law a slave and in both the civil and the criminal code was classed with the Negro slaves and Indians.…They were worked hard, were dressed in the cast off clothes of their owners and might be flogged as often as the master or mistress thought necessary.” In other words, the exploiters were no respecters of color or race. (See also No. 67 of this work.)