![]() ![]() that the "white race" was a social construct invented by the ruling class to pit "whites" against "blacks" and avoid future uprisings, as a response to a joint effort by both "black" and "white" bond laborers, among others, who rebelled against governing authorities in the Bacon's Rebellion of 1676-77? that in 1676, Governor William Berkeley estimated about 1,500 European chattel slaves were arriving yearly, "the majority English, with a few Scots and fewer Irish?" ![]() that of the 92,000 European immigrants bought to Virginia and Maryland between 16, over 3/4 were chattel slaves with the great majority of them being English among whom were the homeless, convicts, prostitutes, prisoners taken in rebellion, and kidnapped? that the first chattel slaves in the colonies were "white" Europeans? that there wasn't a "white race" was not just semantics, but that the living conditions of free "whites" and "blacks" were about the same, and the living conditions of "white" and "black" chattel bond-servants were about the same? that before the 17th century, there was no such thing as a "white race?" Allen, the "proletariat scholar" who helped pioneer" white privilege" theories. ![]()
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