White Slaves. Indentured Slaves. Bonded Slaves. All White Slaves.

1) Even at the peak of American slavery, only a tiny percentage of American whites ”€about 1.5%” €owned slaves.

2) Leading up to the Civil War, a vastly higher quotient of whites had worked as indentured servants and convict laborers than had ever owned slaves. Most historians, regardless of their political orientation, agree that anywhere from half to two-thirds of whites who came to the American colonies arrived in bondage. The fact that the vast majority of whites existed in a state closer to slavery than to slave ownership is something resolutely ignored in the modern retelling of history.

3) Documents from the era show that so-called white “€indentured servants”€ were often referred to as “€slaves”€ rather than “servants.”

4) These “€servants”€ "slaves" did not always enter into voluntary contracts. There is overwhelming evidence that many of them were kidnapped by organized
criminal rings and sent to work on American plantations. It is possible that as many, if not more, whites than blacks were brought involuntarily to the colonies.

5) The middle-passage death rates for these “€servants”€ "slaves" were comparable to that of blacks on slave ships from Africa to the New World.

6) Indentured "servants" "slaves" were whipped and beaten, sometimes to death. When they escaped, ads were placed for their capture.

7) They lived under conditions so brutal that an estimated half of them died before their seven-year term of "indenture Slavery" expired.