dates and details concerning the following historical figures appear in One Link at a Time, the Companion book to Stillbirth of a Nation. What follows is the who and why, in chronological order. The slavery in question is the North American English, later American, trade in whites, then Indians, and then blacks.

1. Sir John Hawkins, English pirate, who initiated the three-stage English trade in West Africans

2. Queen Elizabeth, John Hawkins’ partner in the slave trade and the monarch who enacted the Vagabond Act, which directly resulted in the enslavement of a quarter million English and Scottish men, women and children, is the slave-queen poster child.

3. Oliver Cromwell, who ordered the enslavement and deportation of tens of thousands of English men, women and children, and of hundreds of thousands of Irish of all ages, virtually depopulating Ireland.

4. Captain John Smith, key player in the establishment and promotion of the slave plantation of Virginia, where 90 of every 100 men and women were slaves, and 95 out of a hundred of those died in bondage.

5. William Bradford, founder of the slave plantation of New England, in which 40 of every 100 white men were slaves.

6. Lords Calvert and Baltimore, who founded the slave plantation of Maryland on the brutal Virginia model, in which 80 of every 100 slaves died in bondage.

7. William Penn, who founded the slave plantation of Pennsylvania, where 90 of every 100 persons were slaves, kept in line by the Indians he traded with, and scalped by the very trade tomahawks he invented.

8. George Washington, war criminal, owner of white and black slaves, harvester of slave teeth for his dentures, who gave numerous orders to execute disobedient white slaves, and who promoted the use of poor whites to flood Indian lands, kill all of the game so that the Indians could not hunt, and make way for more plantations featuring his favorite import commodity, blacks slaves out of Africa. Washington was immortalized in Richmond with a statue of him pointing west with three black children chained at his feet.

9. Toussaint Louverture, supposed liberator of Haiti, who invited white slave masters back to his country, and gave them back their slaves, taking quite a few for himself as well. [This was off topic, being French, but Toussaint pairs up with Washington so nicely as a power-hungry race-traitor, that I could not help myself.]

1. Nathanial Bacon, led a white and black slave uprising against the Virginia planters.

2. Culpeper, a little known man who led a white, black and Indian uprising against the Carolina slave masters.

3. Jemmy, a literate Congolese slave soldier, who tried to lead fellow armed Africans to Spanish Florida. Each of his men took a white man to hell with them.

4. Caesar, a black slave, and John Hughson, a white slave, were hanged for trying to organize an Irish/Black servant uprising in New York City.

5. Peter Williamson, was a kidnapping victim as a child. Peter survived bondage at the hands of the Scotch, the English, Delaware Indians, the French, and the Scotch again, and managed to leave a true account for us of what we have been taught were The Colonies, but were known by one and all as The Plantations in his day.

6. Daniel Shays, who fought the rich in New England and lost.

7. Lewis Wetzel, son of a white slave, who hunted and killed Indians his entire life, despite being persecuted by white authorities. In Wetzel’s time the British paid Indians $50 for white scalps, just as in his father’s time the Quakers had given guns and ammunition to the Delaware to keep Irish, English and Scotch slaves on the Pennsylvania plantations. His vendetta was well-served, collecting over 40 scalps on lone hunts.

8. Blue Jacket, a white renegade, adopted by the Shawnee, who commanded the greatest Indian victory over a white force in North America, slaughtering an entire slave army, sent into Ohio to its doom by the ultimate slave master, George Washington.

9. Tecumseh, adopted Shawnee brother of Blue Jacket, who devoted his life to stopping the American slave armies and the ecological devastation that came in their wake, by design. He was eventually betrayed by his British allies and slain in battle.

10. Nat Turner, for rising up and wiping out some slave masters in 1831.