The Book Report Series: Highlights of some very great books about American history. A list of books everyone should have in their libraries. “They Were White and They Were Salves” is a thoroughly researched challenge to the conventional historiography of colonial and industrial labor, a stunning journey into a hidden epoch, the slave trade in Whites, hundreds of thousands of whom were kidnapped, chained, whipped and worked to death in the American colonies and during the Industrial Revolution. This is a chronicle that has never been fully told, part of a vital heritage that has until now comprised the dustiest shelf in the darkest corner of suppressed history. “Their bodies and souls are used as if hell commenced here and only continued in the world to come.” Thomas Montgomery, in a letter to the Lords of Trade and Plantations, on the suffering of White slaves, August 3, 1688. MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN II was educated at Oswego State Teacher’s College and Hobart College. He is a former reporter for New York bureau of the Associated Press and former director of the California-based Institute for Historical Review.

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