Quote Originally Posted by smokin poet
because yo people aint never been put n chains or oppressed

we clown on yall so we can make up 4 it
First of all, I don't think that you were "put in chains" - and as for being "oppressed", that's a matter of opinion. Most of us have ancestors that were oppressed in all manners.

In case you don't know it, the country we call the United States brought over MILLIONS of white indentured servants from Europe, many of them in chains, and many of them (including children) brought totally against their will. This "servitude" racket was the same as "slavery", and sometimes worse - as the black slaves knew this very well. Many were sent to Barbados and other hellholes, where they died from the work and conditions. Do you know where the word "kidnap" comes from? It was Cockney for "Kid-nabbing" - which is exactly what happened, and they were forced to work, sometimes overseas. Orphans were particularly singled out for this. A starving adult in Europe could be sentenced to life for stealing an apple from the orchid of the ruling classes, OR take the servitude rap. Sometimes they were shanghaied right out on the street.

A lot of this was still going on well into the 19th century, along with slavery of blacks. Eventually, after these slavery systems were outlawed, there were tenant farmers and other bad jobs.

Words like "cracker" and "redneck" probably came into use when these people's forefathers were indentured servants.

They donā??t teach you this stuff in schools, but it happened.

An interesting book about this topic is They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold Story of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America, by Michael A. Hoffman, Dresden N.Y.: Wiswell Ruffin House 1992 (fourth edition).
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