Dakota Beacon

Slavery has a long, sordid history and Blacks alone do not bear the stigma of this vile institution. Historically, Whites have been sold as salves in great numbers for centuries.

In our era of political correctness, in the shadow of the Civil Rights movement, knowledge of White slavery has all but disappeared. Slave trade in Whites is a story little known in America’s suppressed history. From the earliest days of the American colonies hundreds of thousands of Whites were kidnapped, chained, whipped and worked to death up until the Industrial Revolution.

Within academia proponents of “white guilt” use euphemisms such as “White indentured servitude” and “White bondservants” for Whites who were bound over to a system that resulted in permanent chattel slavery until death set them free. With the unprecedented focus of educational and media attention on the Negro experience, it is assumed that only Blacks were slaves, a fine example of reverse stereotyping.

Slavery knows no racial, ethnic or cultural bounds. Thousands of years ago the Greeks, famous for their early practice of democracy enslaved Whites as well as their fellow Greeks.

Romans enslaved thousands of Whites in Britain. Julius Caesar brought into slavery more than a million Gauls and slave dealers followed in the wake of his legions.

After Charlemagne conquered Saxony huge numbers of captured Whites were forced into the slave markets.

From the 8th to the 11th centuries France was a major transit point for White slaves to the Muslim world. The sale of White slaves to Asia and Africa provided European treasuries with a continuing supply of gold. Rouen, France in particular was the port for shipping Irish and Flemish White slaves to the Muslim world.

The stereotype often presented is the Muslim slaver herding Blacks across the desert. In fact, for more than seven centuries, until the fall of Muslim Spain, the opposite was true. It was chained White slaves being herded to market.

In the eastern European steppes there was a well developed slaving network. Slavs and Finns entered the Muslim slave markets via the Black and Caspian sea routes. The very word “slave” is derived from the word “Slav.” Muslims preferred Christian Europeans as slaves.

Venice, Italy was also a major transit point for White slaves brought from northern Europe across the Alps and traded for oriental luxury products, especially clothes.

White Russian Muscovites were enslaved by both European slave raiders as well as large slave raiding operations conducted by the Mongols and by the Ottoman Empire.

Slave trading was a major commercial activity in the Viking Age with the main source of slaves coming from the Scots and the Irish. Viking slavers sold tens of thousands of White slaves to Muslims in Spain. So lucrative was the slave trade that Spanish Muslims sent diplomatic missions to Scandinavia during the 840s to formalize trading relations.

In a more recent century, the British parliament in 1659 debated the practice of selling British Whites into slavery in the New World. The Whites were not referred to as “indentured servants” but as “slaves.” White slavery in colonial America cannot be separated from the dehumanizing of poor Whites in urban England during the Industrial Revolution and the “Irish problem” confronting British landlords.

Between 1609 and the late 1700s, no fewer than one-half of all Caucasians came to the New World as slaves in one form or another. Even among passengers on the Mayflower there were twelve White slaves. During America’s early history White slaves cleared forests, drained swamps, built roads and died in greater numbers doing so than any other ethnic group.

Today, American-Caucasians are called upon to carry the guilt and even pay reparations for Black slavery. There is no need for Caucasians to fall victim to what author Shelby Steele calls “white guilt.” White guilt refers to a sense of individual or collective guilt felt by some Whites for America’s racial history. In its sickest version, ”white guilt” is often used by liberals to politically induce Caucasian-Americans to support affirmative action and redistribution of wealth (reparations).

Slavery as a worldwide phenomenon is a continuing story from the earliest times to the present. Contemporary enslavement of young boys, girls and women forced into the international sex trade including here in the United States is the current manifestation of trafficking in human flesh.

Dennis M. Patrick can be contacted at P. O. Box 337, Stanley, ND 58784 or (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).