Ran across a couple of books on White Slavery: 1. The Irish Slaves by Rhetta Akamatsu. 2. White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britian's White Slaves in America
You can find them both on Amazon.
Did you have any idea there were Irish Slaves, well before Black Slaves? Did you know that the Black were considered a much more valuable commodity, than the "paddies"? Wonder why we aren't taught THIS history!?
Some excerpts:
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"THE IRISH SLAVES
At the beginning of the 17th Century, in the reign of James I of England,
England faced a problem: what to do with the Irish. They had been practicing
genocide against the Irish since the reign of Elizabeth, but they couldn't kill
them all. Some had been banished, and some had gone into voluntary exile, but
there were still just too many of them.
So James I encouraged the sale of the Irish as slaves to the New World colonies,
not only America but Barbados and South America. The first recorded sale of
Irish slaves was to a settlement along the Amazon in South America in 1612.
However, before that there were probably many unofficial arrangements, since the
Irish were of no importance and details of how they were dealt with were not
deemed necessary.
In 1625, the King issued a proclamation that all Irish political prisoners were
to be transported to the West Indies and sold as slave labor to the planters
there. In 1637, a census showed that 69% of the inhabitants of Monsarrat in the
West Indies were Irish slaves. The Irish had a tendency to die in the heat, and
were not as well suited to the work as African slaves, but African slaves had to
be bought. Irish slaves could be kidnapped if there weren't enough prisoners,
and of course, it was easy enough to make Irish prisoners by manufacturing some
petty crime or other. This made the Irish the preferred "livestock" for English
slave traders for 200 years.
In 1641, one of the periodic wars in which the Irish tried to overthrow the
English misrule in their land took place. As always, this rebellion
eventually failed. As a result, in the 12 years following the revolt, known as
the Confederation War, the Irish population fell from 1,466,000 to 616,000. Over
550,000 Irishmen were killed, and 300,000 were sold as slaves. The women and
children who were left homeless and destitute had to be dealt with , so they
were rounded up and sold, too.
But even though it did not seem that things could get worse, with the advent of
Oliver Cromwell, they did. In the 1650's, thousands more Irish were killed, and
many more were sold into slavery. Over 100,000 Irish Catholic children were
taken from their parents and sold as slaves, many to Virginia and New England.
Unbelievably but truly, from 1651 to 1660 there were more Irish slaves in
America than the entire non-slave population of the colonies!
In 1652, Cromwell instigated the Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland. He demanded that
all Irish people were to resettle west of the Shannon, in arid, uninhabitable
land, or be transported to the West Indies. The Irish refused to relocate
peaceably, for the most part, since they couldn't survive if they did.
A law, published in 1657, read:
"Those who fail to transplant themselves into Connaught
(Ireland's Western Province) or (County) Clare within six
months... Shall be attained of high treason... Are to be sent
into America or some other parts beyond the seas..."(1)
Any who attempted to return would
"suffer the pains of death as
felons by virtue of this act, without benefit of Clergy."(2)
The soldiers were encouraged to kill the Irish who refused to move; it was
certainly not considered a crime. But the slave trade was so profitable that it
was much more lucrative to round them up and sell them. Gangs went out to fill
quotas by capturing whoever came across their path; they were so industrious
that they accidentally captured a number of French and English and several
thousand Scots in the process. By Cromwell's death, at least 100,000 Irish men,
women, and children had been sold in the West Indies, Virginia, and New England.
While most were sold to the sugar planters in Barbados, Jamaica and throughout
the West Indies, some writers assert that at least 20,000 were sold to the
American colonies. (3) The earliest record of Irish slaves in America was in
1620, with the arrival of
200 slaves. Most of the documentation, however, comes from the West Indies.
In 1742, a document entitled Thurloe's State Papers, published in London, opined
that:
"..It was a measure beneficial to Ireland, which was
thus relieved of a population that might trouble the planters; it
was a benefit to the people removed, which might thus be made
English and Christians ... a great benefit to the West India
sugar planters, who desired men and boys for their bondsmen, and
the women and Irish girls... To solace them."(4)
Note the chilling insouciance of the purpose stated for the women and Irish
girls. . to "solace" the sugar planters. Also, to our way of thinking, the Irish
were Christians, but to the Protestant English, Catholics were considered
Papist, and Papists weren't Christians.
So for the entire 17th Century, from 1600 until 1699, there were many more Irish
sold as slaves than Africans. There are records of Irish slaves well into the
18th Century.
Many never made it off the ships. According to written record, in at least one
incident 132 slaves, men, women, and children, were dumped overboard to drown
because ships' supplies were running low. They were drowned because the
insurance would pay for an "accident," but not if the slaves were allowed to
starve. Typical death rates on the ships were from 37% to 50%.
In the West Indies, the African and Irish slaves were housed together, but
because the African slaves were much more costly, they were treated much better
than the Irish slaves. Also, the Irish were Catholic, and Papists were hated
among the Protestant planters. An Irish slave would endure such treatment as
having his hands and feet set on fire or being strung up and beaten for even a
small infraction. Richard Ligon, who witnessed these things first-hand and
recorded them in a history of Barbados he published in 1657, stated:
"Truly, I have seen cruelty there done to servants as I did not think one
Christian could
have done to another."(5)
According to Sean O'Callahan, in To Hell or Barbados, Irish men and women were
inspected like cattle there, just as the Africans were. In addition, Irish
slaves, who were harder to distinguish from their owners since they shared the
same skin color, were branded with the owner's initials, the women on the
forearm and the men on the buttocks. O'Callahan goes on to say that the women
were not only sold to the planters as sexual slaves but were often sold to local
brothels as well. He states that the black or mulatto overseers also often
forced the women to strip while working in the fields and often used them
sexually as well.(6)
The one advantage the Irish slaves had over the African slaves was that since
they were literate and they did not survive well in the fields, they were
generally used as house servants, accountants, and teachers. But the gentility
of the service did not correlate to the punishment for infractions. Flogging was
common, and most slave owners did not really care if they killed an easily
replaceable, cheap Irish slave.
While most of these slaves who survived were eventually freed after their time
of service was completed, many leaving the islands for the American colonies,
many were not, and the planters found another way to insure a free supply of
valuable slaves. They were quick to "find solace" and start breeding with the
Irish slave women. Many of them were very pretty, but more than that, while most
of the Irish were sold for only a period of service, usually about 10 years
assuming they survived, their children were born slaves for life. The planters
knew that most of the mothers would remain in servitude to remain with their
children even after their service was technically up.
The planters also began to breed the Irish women with the African male slaves to
make lighter skinned slaves, because the lighter skinned slaves were more
desirable and could be sold for more money. A law was passed against this
practice in 1681, not for moral reasons but because the practice was causing the
Royal African Company to lose money. According to James F. Cavanaugh, this
company, sent 249 shiploads of slaves to the West Indies in the 1680's, a total
of 60,000 African and Irish, 14,000 of whom died in passage.(7)
While the trade in Irish slaves tapered off after the defeat of King James in
1691, England once again shipped out thousands of Irish prisoners who were taken
after the Irish Rebellion of 1798. These prisoners were shipped to America and
to Australia, specifically to be sold as slaves.
No Irish slave shipped to the West Indies or America has ever been known to have
returned to Ireland. Many died, either in passage or from abuse or overwork.
Others won their freedom and emigrated to the American colonies. Still others
remained in the West Indies, which still contain an population of "Black Irish,"
many the descendents of the children of black slaves and Irish slaves.
In 1688, the first woman killed in Cotton Mather's witch trials in Massachusetts
was an old Irish woman named Anne Glover, who had been captured and sold as a
slave in 1650. She spoke no English. She could recite The Lord's Prayer in
Gaelic and Latin, but without English, Mather decided her Gaelic was
discourse with the devil, and hung her.(8)
It was not until 1839 that a law was passed in England ending the slave trade,
and thus the trade in Irish slaves.
It is unfortunate that, while the descendents of black slaves have kept their
history alive and not allowed their atrocity to be forgotten, the Irish heritage
of slavery in America and the West Indies has been largely ignored or forgotten.
It is my hope that this article will help in some small way to change that and
to commemorate these unfortunate people.
NOTES:
(1) John P. Prendergast, The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, Dublin, ?, 1865
(2) Ibid.
(3) See, for example, Thomas Addis Emmet, Ireland Under English Rule, NY &
London,
Putnam, 1903
(4) Prendergast, The Conwellian Settlment of Ireland
(5) Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of Barbadoes, London,
Cass, 1657, reprinted 1976
(6)Sean O'Callaghan, To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland,
(Dingle, Ireland: Brandon, 2001)
(6) James F. Cavanaugh, Clan Chief Herald
(7) For Mather's account of the case, see Cotton Mather, Memorable Providences,
Relating To
Witchcrafts And Possessions (1689)"
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"White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies.
In
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white
people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from
London's streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy
was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide "breeders"
for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured
servants, unaware they would become personal property who could be
bought, sold, and even gambled away. Transported convicts were paraded
for sale like livestock.
Drawing on letters crying for help,
diaries, and court and government archives, Don Jordan and Michael Walsh
demonstrate that the brutalities usually assoc"iated with black slavery
alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade
ended with American independence, but the British still tried to sell
convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most
audacious plots in Anglo-American history. This is a saga of
exploration and cruelty spanning 170 years that has been submerged under
the overwhelming memory of black slavery. White Cargo brings the brutal, uncomfortable story to the surface."
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Jews and the White Slave Trade
by Dr. William Pierce
Steven Spielberg's pseudo-historical film about a 19th-century mutiny
and massacre aboard a Spanish slave ship,
Amistad, and
the subsequent trial of the Black mutineers is being praised by the
reviewers. Spielberg, one of the wealthiest and most successful of
Hollywood's Jewish film makers, is also being praised by his kinsmen in
various so-called "human rights" organizations for using his propaganda
skills to sensitize White, Gentile audiences to the horrors of slavery
and make them feel just a little more guilty for treating non-Whites so
badly in the past. What the film doesn't mention, of course, is that
Spielberg's Jewish kinsmen owned many, though not all, of the ships
involved in the 18th- and 19th-century Atlantic trade in Black slaves
and, in fact, played a very prominent role in bringing Black slaves to
America.
The film tends to steer one away from blaming anyone for slavery
except White Gentiles. This bit of misdirection is
interesting in light of the fact that Jews have been dominant in the
slave trade since at least Roman times -- especially the trade in White
slaves. Jewish slave dealers followed Caesar's armies everywhere -- into
Gaul, into Germany, and into other northern lands -- eager to buy as
slaves all of the captives of the Romans -- especially the female
captives.
Jews have remained dominant in the White slave trade until the present
day -- although during the Middle Ages the Christian Church tried
unsuccessfully a number of times to stop them, beginning in the fifth
century with an edict by the emperor Theodosius II against Jews owning
Christian slaves. After being banned from owning or dealing in slaves by
one emperor, the Jews would wait until the next emperor came along, then
they would buy a charter giving them a monopoly in the slave trade. Then
public outrage against the Jews would grow until another emperor would
ban their slave-dealing again. Most of the time, however, the Jews were
the undisputed masters of the White slave trade, and that is still the
case today.
Interestingly enough, this fact was revealed in a recent news report in
the Jewish newspaper the
New York Times, of all places.
The January 11 issue has a major article titled "Contraband Women" and
written by a Jewish reporter in Israel. The article deals specifically
with the Jewish trade in Ukrainian and Russian women -- although it
doesn't label the trade as "Jewish." What the report does say is this:
Centered in Moscow and the Ukrainian capital Kiev, the networks
trafficking women run east to Japan and Thailand, where thousands of
young Slavic women now work against their will as prostitutes, and west
to the Adriatic coast and beyond. The routes are controlled by Russian
crime gangs based in Moscow.
What the reader must understand is that these crime gangs don't have a
real Russian in them. They are entirely Jewish, but the agreed-upon
subterfuge used by the newspapers in this country is to refer to them as
"Russian" rather than as Jewish. Thus one reads in various news organs
about the recent takeover of organized crime in many areas of America --
especially the East Coast and Los Angeles -- by "Russian gangs" and of
the viciousness and cleverness of these "Russian" gangsters, but there
is never any mention of the fact that they are not Russians at all, but
Jews from the former Soviet Union: Jews like Mr. Clinton's supporter
Vadim Rabinovich, photographed shaking hands with Clinton at a Miami
fundraiser when he was illegally in the United States, as I mentioned in
my broadcast of December 27, 1997.
The story of the exploitation of eastern Europe by the Jews is a
fascinating and infuriating story. Throughout the Middle Ages and into
the modern era they focused on profiting from the weaknesses and vices
of the Gentile populations of Poles, Russians, Ukrainians and others
among whom they lived as a barely tolerated minority. In addition to
being the moneylenders, they controlled the liquor business and owned
the drinking establishments, the gambling dens, and the brothels. A
number of 19th-century Russian writers, among them Dostoievski and
Gogol, have described their destructive effects on Slavic peasant
society and the perpetual condition of mutual hostility which existed
between the Jews and the Slavs.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries the Jewish trade in White
slaves from these lands expanded enormously. It has been described by
the Jewish historian Edward Bristow in his 1982 book
Prostitution
and Prejudice, published by Oxford University Press and Schocken
Books in New York. Although Bristow's book is written from the viewpoint
of one opposed to this Jewish trade in women, it is nevertheless
enormously revealing. The Jews recruited peasant girls in Polish and
Russian villages, usually under false pretenses, and transported them to
brothels in Turkey, Egypt, and other parts of the Middle East; to
Vienna, Budapest, and other major cities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire;
and as far away as New York, New Orleans, and Buenos Aires. This Jewish
trade in Slavic women naturally caused a great deal of hatred against
the Jews by the Slavs, and this hatred broke out in pogroms and other
popular actions against the Jews over and over again.
One would believe from the works of Mr. Spielberg and other Jewish
propagandists that the hatred the Slavs bore against the Jews was based
only on religious bigotry and that the Jews were completely innocent and
inoffensive. One fascinating fact which Bristow's book reveals is that
the center of the Jewish trade in Polish girls was in a little town
called Oswiecim. The German name for this town was Auschwitz.
I don't mean to imply that the Jews were the only ones at fault in the
White slave trade. Gentile politicians and police officials gladly
accepted bribes from the Jews and in return allowed them to carry on
their dirty business. And in the United States non-Jewish criminal
elements such as the Mafia collaborated with the Jews or ran their own
White slave operations. But the trade in White slaves from eastern
Europe has been an exclusively Jewish activity for the last 200 years.
It is ironic that another Jewish enterprise, organized Marxism, put a
temporary crimp in the Jewish trade in Slavic women. When the Jewish
Bolsheviks seized control of Russia and Ukraine after the First World
War, and of Poland and other Slavic lands after the Second World War,
they clamped down on all capitalist activity, including that of their
Jewish brethren in the White slave business. What they did instead was
establish a huge empire of slave-labor camps, of which Alexander
Solzhenitsyn has written so eloquently. Jewish slave dealers became
commissars and slave camp bosses. And of course, they butchered their
Gentile opponents by the millions. The time of communism was the Jews'
time for getting rid of all of the Russian and Ukrainian patriots, who
had hated them for so long.
Actually, some capitalist activity did survive throughout the communist
years in the form of organized crime. Two excellent books on the subject
were published in the United States, both written by Soviet Jews
thoroughly familiar with organized crime in the Soviet Union. In fact,
one of the authors, Yuri Brokhin, was a former member of a Jewish
organized crime gang in Russia, where he worked as a pimp. His book,
Hustling on Gorky Street, was published in 1975 by Dial
Press.
The other author, Konstantin Simis, was a Jewish defense lawyer for
organized Jewish criminals. His book,
USSR: The Corrupt Society,
was published in 1982 by Simon and Schuster. Both of these
Jewish authors write quite frankly about the Jewish domination of
organized crime during the communist years. Brokhin brags about it, in
fact. He says Russians and other Slavs can only be ordinary criminals,
depending on guns and strong-arm tactics, but they aren't smart enough
for successful, large-scale organized crime; only Jews are smart enough
for that.
A factor neither author mentions which was more important than smartness
was the connections Jewish criminals had with Jewish communists in the
Soviet bureaucracy. When Abe, who ran a prostitution and drug racket in
Moscow, could count on his cousin Hymie in the prosecutor's office to
keep him informed about police plans for raids, as well as a little
covert assistance if matters ever came to court, he had a distinct
advantage over his Russian competitors.
Eventually communism bled eastern Europe dry, and with the economies of
the countries under their control on the verge of collapse the
communists switched hats, declared themselves "democrats" instead of
communists, and announced a return to capitalism. The Jewish slave
dealers went back into business, and business was good for them. Other
Jewish communists went into business too. As the economies were
"privatized" -- that is, as state-owned factories and businesses were
sold to private entrepreneurs at bargain-basement prices -- Jews used
their connections with their now-"democratic" kinsmen in the
bureaucracies to snap them up. Other Jews, who had monopolized organized
crime during the communist years, remained as organized crime bosses but
greatly expanded the scope of their operations. Often, the new
entrepreneurs and the new crime bosses are the same people.
The richest man in Russia today is Boris Berezovsky, who since the
collapse of communism has become a multi-billionaire by buying up banks,
television networks, and newspapers from the government, with the aid of
his fellow Jews still in the bureaucracy. Berezovsky speeds around
Moscow in a bulletproof vest and an armored limousine, and anyone who
gets in the way of his business interests has a tendency to get shot or
simply to disappear. Second only to Berezovsky in wealth is another
Jewish media mogul, Vladimir Gusinsky. Between them, Berezovsky and
Gusinsky control most of the mass media in Russia. They also exercise
pretty thorough control of Boris Yeltsin, Russia's alcoholic president,
who is sort of a Slavic version of Bill Clinton, plus vodka. It was only
through the support of Berezovsky's and Gusinsky's media that Yeltsin
won his last election.
If you remember, Clinton and all of the Jewish media in the United
States also were rooting enthusiastically for Yeltsin during that
election. They all were afraid that a genuine Russian patriot might beat
Yeltsin, in which case the Jewish control of Russia would have been
finished.
After the election, Yeltsin appointed Berezovsky to Russia's national
security council, but when some of the few media in Russia which still
are independent publicized Berezovsky's connections to Jewish organized
crime gangs, Yeltsin was forced to fire him. Yeltsin has made up for
that, however, by appointing another Jew, Boris Nemtsov, to the position
of deputy prime minister, one of the most powerful positions in the
government. One thing Yeltsin never has done, however, is make any move
to curtail the operations of Russia's organized Jewish crime gangs,
which are running rampant through the country and displaying their
wealth and power, while ordinary Russians struggle to feed themselves
and keep their homes warm this winter.
And tens of thousands of pretty but naive young Russian and Ukrainian
women are being swept up by the Jewish gangs -- called "Russian" gangs
by the
New York Times -- and shipped off to a life of
misery and degradation in Turkey, Pakistan, Thailand, and Israel, as
well as to countries in western Europe, where Jews also control
organized crime. The young women, unable to find work in Russia,
Ukraine, or Poland and facing a bleak future in countries ravaged by
decades of communism, are eager for any chance at a better life. They
respond to advertisements that offer them work abroad as receptionists
or secretaries and also promise free training and transportation. When
the girls arrive at their destinations, however, they find something
quite different -- but by then it is too late.
One of these girls, Irina, a 21-year-old, green-eyed Ukrainian blond,
was interviewed in Israel. She told how her Israeli employer took her to
a brothel soon after her arrival in Israel. He took her passport away
from her, burned it before her eyes, and told her that she now was his
property and must work in the brothel. When Irina refused, she was
beaten and raped. Luckier than most of the Slavic women lured to Israel,
Irina eventually was swept up in a police raid and sent to prison as an
illegal alien. She was awaiting deportation, along with hundreds of
other Russian and Ukrainian women, when she was interviewed. She
lamented the fact that the Israeli who had raped her and forced her to
work in the brothel was not even arrested. Indeed, according to Jewish
law, the rape of a Gentile woman is not illegal. Nor is it illegal in
Israel to buy and sell slaves, so long as the slaves are not Jewish.
Amazingly, the
New York Times article reveals this fact.
The White slave trade is big business in Israel. Ukrainian authorities
estimate that as many as 40,000 Ukrainian women under the age of 30 are
taken from Ukraine each year. Some of these women respond to
advertisements promising employment abroad, like Irina did, and some are
simply kidnapped and smuggled out of the country. Those who try to
escape from their Jewish captors are treated brutally. Often they are
butchered in front of other captive women to keep the others terrified
into doing whatever they are told. At slave markets operated by the
Jewish gangs in Italy young Slavic women are stripped, put on blocks,
and auctioned off to brothel owners.
The most astounding thing about this whole, filthy business is that most
people are forced to learn about it from a Jewish newspaper like the
New York Times. And really, you should read for yourself
the article to which I referred. It was in the January 11, 1998, issue,
and the news is not likely to be repeated.
Ask yourself, why doesn't Interpol, the international police agency, do
something to put a stop to this White slave trade? Why don't the
governments of the countries from which the women are being abducted do
something? Why don't the mass media raise a hue and cry? Why don't
powerful feminist organizations demand the eradication of White slavery?
And the answer to all of these questions is easy: they dare not do or
say anything because it is a Jewish business. In places like Germany,
where the Jews have almost total control of organized crime, anyone who
announces that fact publicly will be arrested and charged with "inciting
racial hatred." Germany and most other European countries have laws
against what they call "hate speech." Saying anything negative about
Jews, true or not, invokes these laws.
Jewish organizations -- and of course, the Clinton administration --
would like very much to have similar laws in the United States.
Interpol, which has plenty of other work to keep it busy, is not eager
to be charged with "anti-Semitism" by going after the Jewish White-slave
gangs. Even if Interpol did arrest the gangsters, it wouldn't do much
good, because the fix is in nearly everywhere. There's a huge amount of
money made from selling women: enough money to pay off politicians,
bureaucrats, judges, and policemen.
Jews like to say about the so-called "Holocaust" of the Second World
War, "Never again." They like to talk about how it is necessary to stamp
out anti-Semitism and pass laws against so-called "hate speech," so that
there can never be another "Holocaust." But by their own behavior they
guarantee that there will be.
While some Jews beat the drums for more reparations payments from
Switzerland, Germany, France, and other countries they claim didn't
treat them right or took some of their ill-gotten gold from them 55 or
60 years ago, other Jews are still bleeding countries like Poland,
Ukraine, Russia, and the Baltic nations of money and of their young
women. Countries which suffered for decades under the brutal rule of
communist commissars are still being exploited by the same people, now
calling themselves "democrats."
The Jews believe that with their deathgrip on the mass media nearly
everywhere, with their puppets -- like Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin --
in positions of power in the East and in the West, with the enormous
wealth they have at their disposal, and with so many Gentiles buffaloed
by "Holocaust" propaganda of the sort cranked out by Steven Spielberg
and a hundred others, they can keep getting away with their exploitation
of us forever. But they are wrong. They themselves are building up the
hatred and the resentment and the rage which will destroy them. It will
destroy them all: the gang members, the media bosses, the "advisers" to
Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, the professional "Holocaust" wailers,
the former commissars, and the rest, even those who are not currently
involved in any of these activities. They are guaranteeing that there
will be another "Holocaust." And this time it will be a real one.
Thanks for being with me again today -- and do find and read that
article on the White slave trade in the January 11, 1998,
New
York Times.
http://www.natvan.com/free-speech/fs982a.html
