Have white people?

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ever been slaves?

Answer 1

Of course, if you count the victims of human trafficking as sex slaves and labor slaves.

Answer 2

Pretty much what I found on the web indicates "white slavery" is forcing women into prostitution against their will. Holding them as slaves in other countries and sometimes in the United States also. But mainly in other countries. Then there are historical accounts of white slaves in the US in the 1700's and 1800's. Check out the links and below I have copied and pasted some passages........




By the beginning of the 20th century, the term also came to mean the abduction of white girls into forced prostitution, and after about 1905 it was used for this definition almost exclusively. "White slavery" was the focus of a major moral panic in the United States at the end of the Progressive Era. Although sexual slavery did and still does occur, "white slavery" is usually used to refer to this moral panic, where there was a perception that this form of abuse was a danger to every young woman.



White slavery is a term that is currently used to refer to forced prostitution. It was first used in 19th century Britain to refer to child prostitution.

Answer 3

"And as long people work, and as long others take the fruit of their work, shall the name Spartacus be said, rather as silent whispers, than loud calls."

Final quote from the novel Spartacus by Howard Fast, a historical novel about the slave Spartacus that inspired the film by Stanley Kubrick (starring Kirk Douglas).

Also, towards the end of the novel, two roman centurions are looking at the row upon row of crucified men discussing the end of slavery as they know it. One of them smiles and says that there is this new thing called "free" workers that he likes. They are like slaves except they have to feed and clothe themselves, they work for less money, and they do it proudly without sabotaging their work or running away.

Answer 4

Yes, the Jews were slaves in Egypt. Even though Jews were originally from the middle east, they have white skin.

Answer 5

Of course. Slavery was once very common throughout Europe and Northh Africa. Barbary pirates raiding the south coast of Britain were one of the main drivers for the Royal Navy.

The Romans, of course, were very keen on slaves. Boudicc's rebellion was largely based on the Romans declaring her lands a slave state.

Answer 6

White, meaning American whites? Egyptians had Jews as slaves. Vikings took anyone they could as slaves. So I guess, yes.

Answer 7

Yes, Throughout history every race has had members that have been slaves. If you research European history you can find accounts that one clan or group took over another and enslaved
them. Unfortunately it is the history of man. We use those we view as less than us to get further ahead.

From Wikipedia:

The history of slavery in the ancient world was closely tied to warfare. Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Roman, Persian, Chinese, Mayan, Aztec and Indian sources are replete with references to slavery in connection with warfare. Captured prisoners of war were frequently impressed into slavery by their captors, often as manual labourers in military, civil engineering, or agricultural projects, or as household servants. Many ancient households were maintained with one or more slaves and slaves provided nearly all the agricultural and construction labour in some societies.

Many ancient societies had many more slaves than nominally "free" citizens who controlled them. Slavery nearly everywhere permitted cruelty and abuse although slaves were usually treated semi-humanely as valuable "property". Slavery nearly always predates written history on every continent. After writing was introduced, domestic slavery and sometimes concubine slavery was noted among the nomadic Arabs, among Native American hunter gatherers, African, New Guinean, and New Zealand tribes, and among the Germanic and Viking raiders and many other pre-literate people.

Most slavery is associated with war with the losers being made slaves or as a form of criminal punishment with the criminals being made slaves to partially compensate the victims. Debt slavery existed in very early times, and some African peoples had the custom of putting up wives and children as hostages for an obligation; if the obligation was not paid, the hostages became slaves. In Homer's Greece, it was not a crime, although unusual, for a master to beat or kill a slave, and the testimony of slaves was not allowed in Greek courts unless it was obtained through torture.

From Irish Slavery:

The Proclamation of 1625 ordered that Irish political prisoners be transported overseas and sold as laborers to English planters, who were settling the islands of the West Indies, officially establishing a policy that was to continue for two centuries. In 1629 a large group of Irish men and women were sent to Guiana, and by 1632, Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat in the West Indies. By 1637 a census showed that 69% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves, which records show was a cause of concern to the English planters. But there were not enough political prisoners to supply the demand, so every petty infraction carried a sentence of transporting, and slaver gangs combed the country sides to kidnap enough people to fill out their quotas.

Answer 8

All of mankind has been enslaved by someone at sometime. Rome had slaves from all of the know world. Europeans enslaved each other for thousands of years.

Answer 9

Yes, white people were actually indentured slaves in America. If you count the Jews when they were enslaved in Egypt (although Jews are orginally Middle Eastern poeple and I don't think they are white).

Answer 10

Roman empire, Jews several times in history, most of Europe during the Germanian empire, POWs in practically every war just to name a few.