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According to Battalora, (2013), Ruediger, (2020), and Tomlins, (2001), 1) Whites were not a category of persons until the late 1680s (Battalora, 2013), 2) before the 1660s the vast majority of persons who came to the Americas, regardless of country of origin, came on a 7 year indenture-ship contract and were free to then, themselves, obtain indentured servants (Tomlins, 2001), 3) c. 1640 there were places in the British american colonies where nearly half of the black men had white wives owing to the fact that the category of 'black and white' did not yet exist (Battalora, 2013) and 4) Race was invented to 'divide and conquer' the laboring class; and brought into law following Bacon's Rebellion (Ruediger, 2020)
I had no idea until I read these sources (and a few others) so I created a video to tell everyone.
I'd love some feedback on the video, or the ideas presented here.
Battalora, J. (2013). Birth of a white nation: The invention of white people and its relevance today. Strategic Book Publishing.
Ruediger, D. (2020). " Neither Utterly to Reject Them, Nor Yet to Drawe Them to Come In": Tributary Subordination and Settler Colonialism in Virginia. Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 18(1), 1-31.
Tomlins, C. (2001). Reconsidering indentured servitude: European migration and the early American labor force, 1600–1775. Labor History, 42(1), 5-43.
I had no idea until I read these sources (and a few others) so I created a video to tell everyone.
I'd love some feedback on the video, or the ideas presented here.
Battalora, J. (2013). Birth of a white nation: The invention of white people and its relevance today. Strategic Book Publishing.
Ruediger, D. (2020). " Neither Utterly to Reject Them, Nor Yet to Drawe Them to Come In": Tributary Subordination and Settler Colonialism in Virginia. Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 18(1), 1-31.
Tomlins, C. (2001). Reconsidering indentured servitude: European migration and the early American labor force, 1600–1775. Labor History, 42(1), 5-43.
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