Anglo Slavery

Mikki points out that the fair-skinned Angles of Britain, along with the Irish and Scots, were once slaves of dark-skinned Roman masters (most of whom were ethnically Greek, Lebanese or North African) and they were considered an oddity, an agricultural thing with a voice. As late as the sixth century even Pope Gregory remarked on the oddness of the fair skinned boys on sale in a Roman slave market (note how later depictions show him as white-skinned as the boys, when he clearly was not).

“When told that the boys were Angles from Briton, Pope Gregory punned that they looked more like angels (and probably bought them for himself),” says Mikki, “and the popularity of the British Isles as a destination for Roman priests with predilections for blond boys was assured from then onwards.”

“At the time of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 approximately 10% of England's population remained enslaved,” says Mikki. “Although trading serfs and slaves like brute animals was supposedly abolished in 1102 by the Council of Westminster, it was not until the final years of Elizabeth I's reign, about 1600, that the last form of enforced servitude (villeinage) finally disappeared, along with Roman Catholic rule, making Protestant England a beacon of freedom for the whole world.”

“It didn’t last long.”

“With the union of Scotland and England under the new Stuart king, the Scottish James I, and the founding of the colony of Jamestown in Virginia,” says Mikki, “the enslavement of the Anglo-Saxon race resumed as if Elizabeth had never ruled.”

“Poor men, women and children, especially orphans, were kidnapped and enslaved in the New World – along with felons convicted for petty social as well as political dissent.”

"It was widely held that social felons made better slaves than political felons (who, quite rightly, rebelled against unjust slavery) and in 1611, Governor Dale of Virginia actually begged the king to send such people to his colony," relates Mikki, "but by the 1670s Virginia and other colonies began to rely more on Negro slaves, desired respectability and wanted convict transportation stopped in order to attract free settlers (but any act they made in this regard was overruled and nullified by orders from the king)."

“Although all of the nine colonies outside of New England were penal settlements, Virginia was the main convict destination and gained a reputation for being hell upon earth, causing many convicted felons at the Old Bailey in London to beg for death rather than be sent there. It was that bad."

"Transports to Virginia continued until declared illegal in 1788 long after they had ceased in other colonies,” says Mikki, "but people trafficking -- kidnapping of innocent people on the streets of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales – continued well into the late 19th century.”

“Anglo children were especially prized as slaves,” says Mikki, “and most of the English orphanages that sent children to far-away lands up until the 1960s were little more than religious fronts for child trafficking.”

Read more by Mikki on this issue:

a nation built on white slavery

globalized slavery

whitewashing slavery

Britons never will be slaves?

so you think you’re a slave?

Tobacco and America's Convict Past

out of sight, out of mind

digging up your ancestors

is slavery the human condition?

the ghosts of slavery

kidnapped children

black v white slavery

slave migrations

lies, felons, slave-drivers and profiteers

a nation built on white slavery

Negro slavery is an indelible blot in the early history of the USA, but a far worse blot -- one that Mikki believes successive governments in Britain and America have swept under the carpet with the 'indentured servant' lie -- is that from the early 1600s hundreds of thousands of innocent poor people from the Old Country were kidnapped, shipped in chains to the New World colonies and sold as slaves in perpetuity.

"The term ‘indentured servant’ was creatively and retrospectively used to describe all white settlers in the colonies from the 1600s onwards," says Mikki, "but this was a deliberate lie in order to protect the reputation of those who had profited from the white slave trade in the past whose descendents are the elites of American society today."

“The earlier whites sent to the colonies from the 1600s were slaves to be kept in perpetual bondage for the enrichment of their masters,” says Mikki. “They were kidnapped off the streets of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and shipped like cattle to the Americas.”

“Later on, the system of convict transportation was implemented to rid the Old Country of its undesirable citizens – most of whom were political dissidents,” says Mikki, “but this system ended around the time of the American Revolution in 1776 and white people who did not voluntarily emigrate to America became known as ‘indentured servants’.”

"The prospect of cheap or free land and slaves to do their bidding caused many humble families to leave the Old Country, brave the waves and settle in the new country of America, “ says Mikki. “Shipping manifests show that just about every settler family came with at least two indentured servants, and those that didn't come with servants were able to purchase them for a pittance on arrival. They were shrewd opportunists willing to risk all for the unparalleled benefits of being first cab off the rank."

"While we may be critical of them today, we must bear in mind that brutal people like that were probably necessary for what they had to do," explains Mikki. "Today, their experience would be like settling on Mars. No matter what I was offered, I wouldn't go, and neither would most people, but there are certain people who would jump at the chance of easy fortune and absolute control over others on another planet."

"So, like it or not, America was built upon convict transportation and slavery, both black and white, and our ancestors before 1776 were either felons, slaves, opportunists, slave-drivers or profiteers -- mostly involved in the tobacco industry -- and, like everything else that's nasty, it went on out of the sight and mind of those who were not directly involved, but merely enjoyed the fruits that came their way because of it."

"Two hundred years down the track, my descendants -- if the line continues -- may not have to experience being lied to or kept in the dark about their roots," says Mikki, "but with the likely prospect of their every movement and every single thing they -- and their elected governments -- do and say, being open for all to criticize in an Uber Big Brother world of the future they will undoubtedly have to face global evils in a way that we choose not to do now -- and never had to think about in the past -- and take responsibility for their personal and civic lives in a manner that we have the luxury of choosing not to do today."

"You see, there won't be a choice for them," explains Mikki. "Unless they figure out how to colonize Mars, and do so with felons, there won't be sufficient land to build jails big enough to hold the growing number of anti-social felons, slave-drivers and profiteers that continue to breed among us. Lack of land and excess of population must necessarily lead to greater social cohesion -- sharing and caring about the common good -- or total Mad Max chaos will prevail."


Read more by Mikki on this issue:

globalized slavery

whitewashing slavery

Britons never will be slaves?

so you think you’re a slave?

Tobacco and America's Convict Past

out of sight, out of mind

digging up your ancestors

is slavery the human condition?

the ghosts of slavery

kidnapped children

black v white slavery

slave migrations

Anglo Slavery

lies, felons, slave-drivers and profiteers

is america evolving a new civilization?

Because of its unique original racial mix, and the type of immigrants it attracted, the United States may prefer to see itself as an 'American civilization' or as a 'Judaic-Christian civilization' - but most observers see it as an 'African-American-Latino civilization' separate and distinct from other western nations.

America was founded with European and African populations - the two races evolved together in a new land - but in Europe the picture was very different.

Europe, until the end of WWII, was always peopled by white races. It had never imported into its culture other races as slaves or indentured servants on the enormous scale that America had.

The granting of citizenship and residency to non-white populations at the end of the colonial era came as a shock to most European nationals because until then very few Europeans had ever seen a non-white person in the flesh. There was no referendum to vote on whether or not European populations wanted non-white immigrants. It was foisted upon the people by their governments.

Established in their new countries, working largely in low ranking government positions that their former masters were able to use their influence to place them in - many of the ex colonial immigrants quickly worked through the ranks to relatively high positions of backroom power.

This sort of instant power was never available to the African Americans. They arrived in America as slaves and remained that way until 1865. And it took another 100 years before the Black Rights movement enabled their people to be finally treated with some semblance of equality.

The non-white European immigrants retained strong ties with their old countries and their old cultures and religions - sending home money to their extended families and bringing in an endless flow of new immigrants through marriage and family reunion schemes that they were able to promulgate easily with their 'instant' positions of relative power.

Voting rights also gave them an immediate and powerful source of influence. As their numbers increased, their ability to sway political parties became significant. They became a formidable lobby group.

In America, a bloody Civil Rights Movement was necessary in order to create the same advantages for the descendants of the African slaves that the black ex-colonial migrants were being granted freely and immediately upon their arrival in Europe post WWII.