G. Orwell, 1984 [a must-read book for any home library]
blog review
Homo Sapiens Americanus
America really started around 1600. Not with the Pilgrims, although they were there, but with the mid Atlantic white slave plantations. ... this is where the American culture was first forged. Up until about 1750, white slaves or quasi slaves provided most of the farm labor. Blacks were then brought into starting in small numbers in the 1600s and becoming dominant later in the 1700s.
America was not formed as an independent nation until 1792. That was about 190 years AFTER the first white slave plantations were created in Virginia, etc. We are only 213 years away from 1792. But what about those years from 1600 to 1800? Those years are lost to the Ameican consciousness. Why? Because examination of them would make Americans realize more of the real relationship between us and the elite.
And neither will they allow Americans to know about how the plantation elite created a color caste system to seperate the poor white and blacks in the 1600 and 1700s.
book research
CLASS STRUGGLE AND THE ORIGIN OF RACIAL SLAVERY : The Invention of the White Race
by THEODORE WILLIAM ALLEN Edited with an Introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry
Second Edition 2006 (First Edition 1975, Second Printing 1976)
Throughout much of the seventeenth century conditions in Virginia were quite similar for Afro-American and Euro-American laboring people and the "white race" did not exist. (n. 63)
There were many significant instances of labor unrest and solidarity in Virginia, especially during the 1660s and 1670s, and it is of transcendent importance that "foure hundred English and Negroes in Arms" fought together demanding freedom from bondage in the latter stages of Bacon's Rebellion. (sections 1 and 2)
The "white race" was invented as a ruling class social control formation in response to the labor unrest in the latter (civil war) stages of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676-77. (sections 4 and 8 and n. 63)
The "white race" was developed and maintained through the systematic extension of "a privileged status" by the ruling class to European-American laboring people (sections 4 and 8 and n. 63) who were not promoted out of the working class, but came to participate in this new multi-class "white" formation.
The non-enslavement of European-American laborers was the necessary pre-condition for the development of racial slavery [the particular form of racial oppression that developed in the continental plantation colonies]. (section 4)
The "white race" social control formation, racial slavery, the system of white supremacy, and white racial privileges were ruinous to the class interests of working people and workers' "own position, vis-à-vis the rich and powerful . . . was not improved, but weakened, by the white-skin-privilege system." (sections 9 and 10 and n. 63)
Slavery in the continental colonies was capitalism (n. 13), the slaveholders were capitalists, and the chattel bond servants (including those enslaved), were proletarians.
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links
White Slavery In Colonial America
a video of USA history that partly explains EuroAmerican objections to the argument of African-Americans for payment of reparations
Slavery and the origins of racism
how EuroAmerican slaves became enforcers of racism in order to protect priviledges. These priviledges continue to enforce poverty and powerlessness on all non-suppliers of capital.
Ideological Hegemony: Thought Control in American Society
how thought control helps convince 'reasonable' people that feudal-oligacies are meritocratic democracies
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