Reddit reviews They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America

Hmm, so he recommends a book written by notorious racist, Holocaust denier, and tin foil hat conspiracy theorist, Michael Hoffman II?

No ulterior motives here, guys!

Some more (hidden) history:

Did you know that between 1530 and 1780 there were 1 million to as many as 1.25 million white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims?

Did you also know that there were white slaves in early America?

More Reading: Whites in Servitude in Early America and Industrial Britain

Nah, it's cool. This book I highly recommend about slavic history, and this one about their slavery

Also, this page and this are some good reads.

> Because white people didn't go through slavery.

Wrong.

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/whtslav.htm

http://www.amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056

http://www.amazon.com/White-Cargo-Forgotten-History-Britains/dp/0814742963

https://www.salon.com/2000/06/15/white_slaves/

https://www.amazon.com/White-Cargo-Forgotten-History-Britains/dp/0814742963

https://www.amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056

Just because you didn't learn about it in school or see it on TV, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

>Excuse my ignorance, but I wasn't taught this in school and always assumed Blacks were the only slaves and maybe some Native Americans. ELI5.

If you'd rather have video than all the reading, here is an informative video from recent AMA guest Gavin McInnes on this topic.

1. Even at the peak of American slavery, only a tiny percentage of American whites—about 1.5%—owned slaves.
   
   
2. Leading up to the Civil War, a vastly higher quotient of whites had worked as indentured servants and convict laborers than had ever owned slaves. Most historians, regardless of their political orientation, agree that anywhere from half to two-thirds of whites who came to the American colonies arrived in bondage. The fact that the vast majority of whites existed in a state closer to slavery than to slave ownership is something resolutely ignored in the modern retelling of history.
   
   
3. Documents from the era show that so-called white “indentured servants” were often referred to as “slaves” rather than “servants.”
   
   
4. These “servants” did not always enter into voluntary contracts. There is overwhelming evidence that many of them were kidnapped by organized criminal rings and sent to work on American plantations. It is possible that as many, if not more, whites than blacks were brought involuntarily to the colonies.
   
   
5. The middle-passage death rates for these “servants” were comparable to that of blacks on slave ships from Africa to the New World.
   
   
6. Indentured servants were whipped and beaten, sometimes to death. When they escaped, ads were placed for their capture.
   
   
7. They lived under conditions so brutal that an estimated half of them died before their seven-year term of indenture expired.
   
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It's very much a pre-Alt-Right myth, it's been banging around since the '90s

I don't know of a single place that has compiled all of the relevant information through history, you have to look on a smaller scale and combine all of it. I guess you could start with these:

http://www.amazon.com/White-Cargo-Forgotten-History-Britains/dp/0814742963

http://www.amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056

But you have to go so much further back before you see just how many whites were enslaved, mainly in Europe. You also have to be specific with how you define "white" people. In America, anyone with white skin is white, and if you expand on that it's pretty obvious there have been more white slaves throughout history than blacks, there are simply more white people. But if you get more specific and only include English/British people, then probably not.

Crackers were poor white scottish settlers in the south during the late 1700's. Many of them were indentured servants and bond servants. Cracker culture is considered to be similar to todays ghetto culture, in that drinking was emphsized and education was looked down upon, and people labeled crackers lived in poverty in the Appalachia. The first people who used the slur crackers were wealthy slave owning planters who looked down upon poor whites. The bullwhip theory is not the only one, some have suggested that cracker came about because corn was the staple food of poor whites. So cracker does have a history of oppression and classism attached to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(pejorative)

http://www.amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056
Discusses indentured slavery and debt bondage among poor whites.

Are you saying there weren't white slaves?

Here u go: http://www.amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056

Or this, https://www.amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466778177&sr=1-1&keywords=they+were+white+and+they+were+slaves

Modern, liberal blacks won't suffer the fact that every race have also been enslaved in this world at some point.

Yes, they have, to not believe so is to delude yourself.
Here's a good book on white slavery since it apaprently never happened ever.
http://www.amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056