"Amazing
Grace" Movie Makes a Hero out of an Oppressor of White
Slaves
by Michael
A. Hoffman II
Copyright ©2007
RevisionistHistory.org
This year marks the
bicentennial of the eclipse of the Negro slave system that
was designed and implemented by pirates in the pay of
Bloody Bess, Tudor Queen Elizabeth I. The Cryptocracy would
like us to believe that Britain's regency branch of the
Occult Protestant regime, out of the goodness of its sweet
heart, and the particular benevolence of the evangelical
Parliamentarian William Wilberforce, "abolished" slavery in
one of history's great gestures of noblesse oblige.
That's the fractured fairy tale as it is retailed to the
unsuspecting kiddies, young and old, who frequent the new
Hollywood film, "Amazing Grace."
Slavery was not abolished in Britain, however. The de facto
enslavement of whites began with the Elizabethan enclosure
acts (privatization of formerly public grazing lands known
as commons), which made paupers of the English yeomanry and
created an army of homeless and unemployed citizens
demonized by official history as Britain's fabled "criminal
underclass" (the criminal overclass escapes this withering
scrutiny). The history of white slavery in Britain is found
in the practice of "kid-nabbing" (kidnapping) and the laws
and customs that permitted enslavement aboard ship of
abducted farmers and laborers taken from such notorious
white slave ports as Glasgow.
Malthusian scarcity paradigms
were later
invented out of fear of the insurrectionist potential of
whites dubbed "surplus poor," who, in the seventeenth
century, were shipped in chains to British America and
the West Indies as slaves, to toil unto death (not seven
years) on sugar and tobacco plantations as soon as
colonies were established (Georgia was envisioned as a
white slave dumping ground, while Virginia initially had
more white slaves than black ones).
With the rise of the industrial revolution and the lethal
machinery necessary to its success, white children as young
as five were harnessed from before sunrise until after
sunset to the machines of what William Blake called the
"satanic mills." While Wilberforce and his psalm-singing
"telescopic philanthropists" (as the former factory slave
Charles Dickens styled them, due to their exclusive focus
on the suffering of people in far-away lands, while
neglecting the oppression of their own kind), rode to their
abolitionist meetings, ragged white children were trudging
past them in the dark, barefoot and hungry after 12 or 14
hours of slave labor in mines, beatings from overseers and
the constant threat of mutilation by the dangerously unsafe
machinery of the early factories.
These unlamented white factory slaves represented a vast
source of new capital for the British plutocracy,
permitting the latter to so "charitably" manumit the black
slaves of the British commonwealth in 1807.
Furthermore, Wilberforce supported the enactment of the
Combination Act, which forbade the workers of England from
"combining" to form a union to reduce the hours of their
toil and increase the token pittance they were infrequently
paid. Wilberforce also helped pass laws making it a crime
of sedition to criticize King George III and government
officials.
"Amazing Grace" is far from expressing the
truth about slavery in all its dimensions. It is a
deceitful mockery, omitting crucial facts in order to
extend the shelf life of the mythology that enshrines
the Anglo-American ruling class, which is still robbing
workers by means of NAFTA, GATT and the WTO. It is the subconscious
anger over this modern American swindle which has been
mined by right wing Churchianity in the U.S. and
harnessed to the goals of the neocon Republican party,
channeling white Americans' resentment at the seemingly
invisible forces that have drastically diminished their
future prospects and present quality of life.
This Stockholm Syndrome-identification on the part
of rural and blue collar whites with the very dynastic
families like the Bush syndicate who offer poor whites
as sacrificial lambs on the altar of "free trade," is on
par with the celebration by liberals and Christians of
Wilberforce and his canting crew of alleged angels in
human form, imbued with "Amazing Grace."
Amazing disgrace is more like it.
For further
reference
Hoffman's history of white
bondage, They Were White and They
Were Slaves, is for sale here.
Hoffman's article, "The Forgotten Slaves: Whites in
Servitude in Early America and Industrial Britain"
may be read here.
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