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

by Michael A. Hoffman II

They Were White and They Were Slaves is a thoroughly researched challenge to the conventional historiography of colonial and industrial labor, a stunning journey into a hidden epoch, the slave trade of Whites, hundreds of thousands of whom were kidnapped, chained, whipped and worked to death in the American colonies and during the Industrial Revolution. This is a chronicle that has never been fully told, part of a vital heritage that has until now comprised the dustiest shelf in the darkest corner of suppressed history.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Politics, American, American History

132 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Michael A. Hoffman II is an independent scholar, a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press, and the author of ten books of radical history, journalism and literature.
He studied political science and history under Faiz Abu-Jaber at the State University of New York at Oswego.
He investigates political and occult crime by decoding what he calls twilight language.

Reviews

[Matthew W · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the biggest excuses blacks use to explain their communities collective failure is how the white man enslaved them. Black slavery is one of the biggest topics in American public schools as it is used to instill a sense of guilt in whites. The topic of black slavery is also used to enrage blacks and make them feel like their “owed” something by whites. It also seems give a lot blacks a slave mentality where they have no desire to bring themselves up and are happy living off social programs funded by the American tax payer. If only public schools taught the real history of American slavery, there wouldn’t be an unofficial civil war going on between whites and blacks. One only has to read statistics to find out things in America aren’t quite right.

Apparently, at least ½ but up to 2/3 of the original whites American were brought here as slaves by English. These individuals weren’t “Indentured Servants” but people held against their own will. People were enslaved by the English for being poor, vagrants, criminals, orphaned, or even being Irish (most of the slaves). The English enslaved mainly Irish, Scottish, and English people. A good percentage of these individuals died in slavery on the ship ride to America, being over worked, diseases, starvation, beatings, murder, and other horrible untold things. The slaver masters abused white slaves worse than blacks as the white slaves were expendable (blacks were much more expensive both in price and to take care of). Whites were also expected to do harder labor than blacks. Young white slave boys children, were often used as “human brooms” while cleaning chimneys, and died working.

"They Were Slaves and They were white" goes into detail about all these things and much more. Author Michael Hoffman II also has his claims and facts sourced cited mainly from official documents from the time period the events happened. Hoffman exposes the lies and disinformation of mainstream liberal historians and examples from their misleading books. "They Were Slaves and They Were White" is an important book with information that would completely change race relations in America if exposed to the mainstream. Although “rednecks” are blamed for America’s history of racism, most of their ancestors were slaves. Blacks owned blacks as slaves, Cherokee Indians owned blacks as slaves, and whites owned whites as slaves. With all this talk of “reparations,” will most white Americans get reparations too?

[Cwn_annwn_13 · Rating 5 out of 5]

The main thing this book documents is the history of white slavery in North America, England and the Carribean during the same time period the African slave trade was underway using sources written during that time. Everything that you'll never hear about or that just gets glazed over by your local Universities history department.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read about whites who were enslaved because they were poor and in abundance. Cracker,white trash, and hillbilly are just a few of the names for the descendants of these people. I can understand why some people are trying to cover up this point from history. And it also helps to understand racism in the South.
There were some very disjointed parts of this book, and I feel that it needs restructuring to make this better.

[Debbi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Based on primary documents, this gives a view of slavery in the American colonies that has been suppressed for too long.

[Tyrone Henry · Rating 5 out of 5]

THIS BOOK IS A REAL EYE OPENER

I found this book very informative and factual it was easy for me to look up the information that he supplied online and test it for its validity and accuracy. I am a lover of real history and not the history of an autocracy seeking to cover up its atrocities by rewriting history. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in what really happened during the colonization of America and it's enslavement and transportation of poor whites and the so-called criminal class of England to the sugar plantations of the Caribbeans and the colonies in America it has always been about maximum profit throughfree slave labor or cheap labor through globalization.

[Chris Mercado · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disclaimer: this book was given to me, and I did not know what it was, nor did (I believe) the giver...

I almost never put down a book and refuse to finish it, but I have to with this "book". I was skeptical just by the title, but tried to keep an open mind, but after just a few pages it was clear what it was and by the time I got to a section called "The Holocaust Against the White Poor", it was even more clear what this was.

This is not even really a "book". This is just a white nationalist propaganda masquerading as actual literature. After I stopped, I looked up both the author and publisher and sure enough, he is a conspiracy theorist and holocaust denier. There's a part of me that just wants to throw this thing in the trash and not even donate it anywhere, but definitely getting rid of it.

[Jeff Beland · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good history. This is NOT a political dissertation. What this is is a very well researched history into a very taboo subject, the slavery that white men suffered. This does not diminish the atrocity of African American slavery. I bought my copy at a gun show from a white supremacist group, unfortunately that is the only place I've ever seen this book sold. I have never seen it in a local bookstore. I'm sure I could find it online. As much as I hate the fact that I had to buy it from such people, I'm very glad that I read this book. I knew the white slavery existed but I never knew any of the details. I think the point of this book is across best is at the white man, as with every other race at some point in history has been an equal opportunity enslaver!

[Martin Segal · Rating 5 out of 5]

More covered up history the controllers don’t want you to know about so they can continue the white genocide currently taking place! Great book documenting white slavery.

[Richard · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[DeWayne Landwehr · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a treatise on the history of white slavery, including indentured servitude, in America. I found it just 'ok' as a source of research. Many, but not all, of the original slaves in America, were white, and a large number of those were Irish.

[Douglas Perry · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was totally floored when I read how BRUTALLY white slaves were treated (both in North America and throughout the world)! This is an eye opening book about white slavery and it's beginnings in the U.S.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a well documented, very readable book containing long suppressed history. It Is not only about early America, either, but the Roman empire (especially England), Slavic nations (from where the word 'slave' comes), Africa, Ireland, and various Caribbean islands. I highly recommend it.

[Mary Coop · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awoke. Know the real history.

[Bobby Daugherty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brief summary of the origins of America's exploitation, torture and murder of working whites. An excellent book that makes up for its brief text with several references.

[Philemon - · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here is history that should be taught but which has been systematically suppressed. Many if not most of the people brought from England to the American colonies were simply paupers who were cajoled or impressed (kidnapped) and shipped out under guise of "indentured servitude." But in all actuality they were slaves. There was serious money to be made in supplying farm and early industrial labor. What indentures (contracts) there were were easily broken and amended. Workers were not allowed to marry without permission of the employer (slave owner). Any children born to the women were considered bastards whom the owner could freely sell or use at will. The imported workers as a class had no visibility or rights, no courts to hear grievances. In practice, owners were free to flog these workers, even to death, for any minor infraction.

The story this short book tells is horrific in the extreme. Is it exaggerated? If perhaps occasionally in its rhetoric, it's clearly more than well enough researched to be taken very seriously. The book reminds us that slavery isn't something that just happened for a time in the American South. Rather, sad to say, it's been more the norm than the exception over all of human history. That scarcely imaginable cruelty on a very large scale has been a major feature of our collective inheritance is something we must face. Perhaps, only if we do face it, head on, it will we become collectively able to do something about it.

[Jerry Wall · Rating 3 out of 5]

In the United States, Australia, and Great Britain, white people were sentenced to slavery for vagrancy, et al., by birth from mothers in bondage, etc.
Documents from states in the U. S., from Australia, and England, are clear that there were
indentured servants (euphemism for slaves for a certain period, 7 year slaves in literature as in
The Scarlet Letter), and others who were slaves for life though they may have been called
servants, etc.
Book, though short, has many references to slaves in that G. B. system who were treated, at times worse than black as not paid for but sentenced for minor crimes to slavery.

[Quinesia Johnson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thoroughly skimmed this book. It basically had the theme that Whites were, in fact, slaves through the ages for many reasons and in many ways. Through a sort of caste system, many were also indentured, though some were chattel, chimney sweeps, factory and mine workers, and types of apprentices, and others. According to the text Whites were treated worse than Blacks often because they were less valuable, as well. They were enslaved by Greeks, Moors, The British, and Slavs all over the world, basically until The Slave Trades.

Facts I knew, with a clearer picture. Good information.

[Sarah Cain · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book when I was 12. It changed my life by illustrating that the public education system that I had relied upon was intentionally lacking and downright manipulative. It caused me to become an autodidact. The book isn't just fabulous for its coverage of a widely ignored part of history, but because the illumination of that history can awaken people to just how misled they have been. I've recommended it more times than I can count throughout my life.

[David Fields]

Haven't read yet but, assuming this is all factual, this is how you end the whole conversation. You simply tell the truth. The powers that be decided to spin and maintain a false racial narrative. Now that narrative has come back to bite them in the ass. They should've been truthful from the door.

[Lacey Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

I appreciate having read this book, gaining a truthful perspective of the history of the two mislabeled groups, "white" and "black" people. I understand now what has been presented to us is nothing more than a distraction from seeing our common enemy.

[Sandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This should be required reading in high school and/or college.

[EC · Rating 5 out of 5]

This books is well-researched and eye-opening.
A subject that I knew little about before, despite the fact that millions of Whites
were bought, sold, transported, and dehumanized.