Project origins:
Michael A. Hoffman II
Sunset Saga
Curious Life and Adventures of Peter Williamson
Reader Mailings and links
Applied chronological method based on ancient boxing research
Ancient Threads
Biblical servitude [particular sacred chattel]
Norse thralldom [spoils of war]
Islamic slavery [universal racial assignment]
Medieval Morphology
Magna Carta as a Dysgenic Contract
“Others” [Distant Mirror note]
The Gold Thread
1453: Rock Stars to Rap Stars
English Terminology
Colony
Plantation
Province
Bondmen & Bondwomen
Boy
Girl
Bitch
Kidnapping
Servant
Transport
Indenture, indented
Redemptioner
Apprentice
Headright
Terms of service
Pauper or Beggar
Vagabond
Rogue
Incorrigible Rogue/Slave for life [three strikes]
Freeman
Free Holder
Branding, cropping, shackling & whipping
Virginia fair play
Bastards
People of color
Breeding practices according to race
Cracker
Redneck
Servant-Slave semantic
Gary Cooper movie Unconquered
British Export Demographics
1572
Bacon & Locke
Congregationalists
The pressures to traffic children
English 1680 median
Irish holocaust
The Scottish slave trade
British impressment, the King's penny and the hero boxer
Piracy demographics
"Another half pound" quote
Racial/Cultural Identity & Slavery
The English Old Testament View
The Middle Eastern-North African View
Cite Jordon's White over Black
The Amerindian View
Jesuit Revelations
Beards, Sacred Iron and 60% native survival
Paleface note
Economics
Seven year labor cost
-day labor, 1 shilling a day for 3,500 days = 3,500 shillings
-7 year slave for 3,500 days = 300 shillings
-slave for life for 2,000 shillings was beyond the purse of all but the top 7% of the free population
Panel's thoughts on labor investment dynamics?
Human Trafficking Patterns
Major source notes in brackets, with standard sources letters, pamphlets, statutes and advertisements.
Hawkins, Drake, Raleigh & Grenville
The Roanoke Non Mystery [Lee Miller]
Darby Glande
Jamestown Conspiracy 1587-1603
Tidewater Slave Mortality
Virginia [Wiseman’s Book of Record, Thomas Hellier’s Tragical and Penitent Life]
Plantation Virginia Demographics 1676
New York [Peter Sluyter and Jasper Danckaerts]
New England [White’s Planter’s Plea, 1630]
New Jersey
Maryland [The Sotweed factor, 1708, 1676 pamphlet]
The 1671 Virginia-Carolina Venture
Carolinas [Mary Glass buys Emilia Davis 1778]
The Worst Slave State
Pennsylvania destroyed its white slave records.
Delaware was essentially a shipping center for PA, and Jersey was linked much more to PA than New York.
Pennsylvania [Peter Williamson’s Adventures]
The Port of New Castle Demographics 1727-8
Delaware [Jemmy Annelsey’s 13-years a slave, Birthright by Roger Ekrich]
The Middle Passage [Hoffman]
Children’s Ghost Island [308 AiC]
John Lawson [308 AiC]
Jay & Franklin’s Posthumous Debate
Georgia
Florida & Louisiana [Emilia Davis’ fate]
Northwest Territory
1787
Northwest Ordinance
The Slave Master Compact:
Persons [Article 1, Sections 2 & 9, Article 4, Section 2]
Slick Washington’s Catholic Slaves
American Spartacus
Notes on 380 slave rebellions in English America from 1585 to 1860
War as a national amnesia induction
Racial omission
Democracy as a truth retardant
‘Black’ Slave Narratives
All of these sources reveal cases of negro freedom and white servitude. All black slave narratives are post 1790
Olandah Equiano [African]
Moses Roper [person of color]
William Wells Brown [person of color]
Frederick Douglas [person of color]
Solomon Northup [negro, skin game note]
William & Sally Craft [negro & POC]
White Slave Narratives
Most white slave narratives are pre-1790
Thomas Hellier
James Revel
1700s
Daniel Hayes
Thomas Pellow
John Lawson
Mary Sprigg
Jemmy Annelsey
Peter Williamson
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Brown
Robert Rogers
Susanna Johnson
1800s
Mesach Browning
William Garrison
Epilogue
1718, the inventory of Samuel Chew contains a 10 pound valued servant woman
1837, David Holiday freed at age 37
Indentured Woman’s Verse, [Wicked Company 63-4]
Legacy
1865 Pennsylvania Railroad Act
1865 14th Amendment , Section 1, establishes chattel slavery in perpetuity
Gaols and goals to jails
Plantations to penitentiaries [Quakers corrections system]
Freedom papers and travel passes to I.D. and passport
Books in Progress
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: 95%
Crackerboy: 80%
American Spartacus: 65%
Sold: 20%
The 13th Tribe: 10%
Paleface: 10%
Plantation America is the scheduled concluding volume.
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