whitewashing slavery
Mikki is a retired school teacher who has taken up genealogy as a hobby and she is shocked and ashamed to learn that successive governments in Britain and America have conveniently concentrated so much on the black slave trade that very few people are even aware that there was such a thing as white slavery.“White slavery is either not taught in schools at all or it is brushed over with the 'indentured servant' lie,” says Mikki. “The whole sordid business has been totally whitewashed out of our history books exposing our educational and political systems as total shams.”
“If they can lie about this then there must be a load of other information about our past that the powers that be do not want us to know,” says Mikki. “We need to know the truth about our history because what happened before can happen again.”
“As shocking as the black slave trade was,” says Mikki, “it was no more shocking than the white slave trade.”
“Both blacks and whites were sold by their own people and treated abominably but there are no movies about whites in chains, being beaten and killed by cruel masters in faraway lands,” says Mikki, “and there are no apologies or reparations for the many English, Scottish and Irish families whose family trees show many christenings from 1600 but no subsequent marriages or deaths and no names on passenger lists to the New World.”
“Unlike black slaves whose births were not registered, every English subject from Henry VIII onwards -- including Ireland from Elizabeth I and Scotland from James I -- was registered for birth, death and marriage and these records are available for us to read today,” says Mikki. “That hundreds of thousands of registered people have disappeared off the face of the earth is a damning revelation and cannot be swept away as easily as the authorities may wish it could be.”
“What on earth happened to these people? Doesn't anyone care?”
“It may be facile to say that back in those days human life was cheap -- life was hard, brutal and short for most free men and women, black or white -- so what difference does it make if you were enslaved,” says Mikki. “Better to be of some use to somebody than of no use to nobody, right?”
“Wrong! This sort of attitude persisted long after slavery was abolished and gave rise to the horrific conditions of the English factory workers,” says Mikki, “and it still persists among those in positions of power who loathe and fear the masses, knowing from history that under some circumstances their social positions can be easily reversed.”
“It's a callous, uncaring attitude that makes the promotion of war and religious, social and racial tension not only profitable but desirable,” says Mikki, “and in these days of overpopulation, globalization and increasing unemployment -- and nowhere far away to ship people off to -- the final solution may be worse than slavery.”
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