Reply #109: Antebellum white slavery

[blanca52]

White slavery was a reality. Do some reading. Many of you seem to feel that the reality of white slavery deprives blacks of something. In reality, it shows that slavery was a threat to whites and the republic in general. I especially recommend:

The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War: A New Look at the Slavery Issue
by Lawrence R. Tenzer

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There is no difference between a "pure" white and an "impure" one. Indeed, there is no white racial purity at all, so why defend it.

Also, contrary to the myth of "one drop," black blood was legally permitted in whites throughout the antebellum Southern states. It was not until the 20th century and the rise of the Eugenics movement that some states (motivated by a small band of activists such as Walter Plecker of Virginia) tried to define whites as "pure." But, it was not only "black blood" that was banned. However, no one seems to remember that because modern black Americans (at least the intelligentsia) tend to support the "one drop" myth. This was proved by the NAACP's opposition to the Multiracial Movement's call for a "multiracial" census category not to mention the hysterical denunciation of Anatole Broyard and other mixed whites for "passing." Why Hispanics and Arab-Americans, who have plenty of black ancestry, are exempt from this demand to be forcibly assimilated into an "African American" category is not answered.


http://www.interracialvoice.com/powell12.html

"White Slavery: An American Paradox" by Carol Wilson and Calvin D Wilson in Slavery and Abolition, 19:1.

"The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s" by Walter Johnson in Journal of American History, (June 2000)

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