As I have looked into the history of white slavery in America as a kind of protest against our current narrative that all white Americans are descendants of antebellum cotton plantation tycoons who owned armies of black slaves and hung bags of gold from the eves of the quaint cottages of the rural white poor, I have come quickly upon the shades of European slavery—the serfs ground into mud, the orphans shipped off to colonies, the poor British women who could be beaten and raped by any servant or member of the gentry without consequence, and the hundreds of thousands of poor coastal-dwelling whites who were captured by Islamic slave raiders and then sold as sex slaves throughout Africa and the Middle East, under the very noses of the most powerful navies in the world, and the supposedly Christian monarchs that they served.

This reading search has brought me back to my ancient boxing notes, which include a mass of material concerning the lives of bare-knuckle boxers from 1600 through 1900. It has also brought me full circle to another project of mine—When Heroes Fought, and my ongoing research into the white badasses who fought the red badasses for the North American continent over the exact same period of time.

So, as a sub section of White Wednesday, and to comprise yet another book built on this site, I will begin When White Meant Might tonight.

The subject matter will be split into three categories:

1. White Slavery: Kidnapping, Indenture and Bondage

2. White Sports: The Lives and Times of Bareknuckle Fighters

3. White Savages: Frontiersmen, Pathfinders, Mountain Men* & Bad Men

* Excluding information specific to Liver-Eating Johnson, which shall be posted in the Liver-Eater Reader