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An 8 page consideration of an often overlooked component of American history. While it
is impossible to assign a precise number to the percentage of slaves that were white, suffice it to say that this number was significant and that
these slaves served in the same capacity as blacks. As a consequence, they began to identify more with blacks in some instances than the did with
whites. As white slaves interchanged both culture and genes with blacks, the previously strictly separate ideas of Caucasian verses African began
to somewhat blur. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Page Count:
8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPslavWh.rtf
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The fact that the general public and, indeed, even historians largely ignore the fact that white served as slaves in the early years of our countrys history, however, does not
negate the fact that white slavery did indeed exist. Just why the topic of white slavery is a foreign one to most has been explained by some by the
fact that the concept of slavery has been appropriated by African American culture and it is an appropriation which African Americans are not only less than eager to share but
also one which white Americans are reluctant to acknowledge. Despite the reluctance of each of these cultural groups to acknowledge the fact, whites were kidnapped and sold into slavery
between the 1700s and the culmination of the Civil War in significant numbers (Rogers, 1970). Olmseds "The Cotton Kingdom", an influential work first published in 1862 reports instances of
white slaves as do many black slave narratives (Talty, 2003). Talty (2000) notes that some cases of white slaves even made the courts. These included:
"the notorious 1844 New Orleans case of Sally Miller, a German child sold as a mulatto" (Talty, 2000).
There was even a case of a white woman being sold, along with
her children, by her own new husband (Talty, 2000). The buyer? A Georgia preacher (Talty, 2000). While it is impossible to assign a precise number to the
percentage of slaves that were white, suffice it to say that this number was significant and that these slaves served in the same capacity as blacks. As a consequence,
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