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

They Were White and They Were Slaves......Page 1
White Slavery in Ancient & Medieval Europe......Page 2
Arabs and the Traffic in White Slaves......Page 3
White Slavery in Early America......Page 4
A Holocaust Against The White Poor......Page 6
The Political Economy of the Industrial Revolution......Page 8
The Factory System......Page 11
Human Brooms......Page 15
Breaking the Chains of Illusion......Page 19
Poor Whites and the Southern Confederacy......Page 20
Whites Were the First Slaves in America......Page 23
Protestant Slaves......Page 27
Legal Basis and Definitions......Page 28
White Political Prisoners Sold into Slavery......Page 30
Slave Hunting in Britain......Page 31
White Children in Chains......Page 32
White Losses in the Middle Passage Higher than that of Black......Page 35
White Slaves Treated Worse than Blacks......Page 37
Indentures: An Organized Racket......Page 38
Enslavement of the White Family......Page 41
When Hell was in Session......Page 42
The Fugitive Slave Law: Escaping Whites Hunted and Tortured......Page 43
White Slaves in the American Revolution......Page 46
White Slave Rebellions......Page 47
Torture and Murder of White Slaves......Page 50
Crackers, Redlegs, Rednecks and Hillbillies......Page 52
The Death of Two “Human Brooms”......Page 57
A Childhood in the Factory......Page 58
Alabama Sharecropper — 1936......Page 59
End Notes......Page 60
Glossary of Terms......Page 65
Bibliography......Page 68
Praise for They Were White and They Were Slaves......Page 74