Yup. And some of his slaves were white.
Hey, thinking of white slaves— do you think there’s any potential payout for the descendants of the Oglethorpe Debtor’s Colony— also known now as the State of Georgia.
In which: The British used colonial North America as a penal colony through a system of indentured servitude. Merchants would transport the convicts and auctioned them off to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to colonial America, representing perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the 18th century. The State of Georgia for example was first founded by James Edward Oglethorpe by using penal prisoners taken largely from debtors’ prison, creating a “Debtor’s Colony”. The English also would often ship Irish and Scots to the Americas whenever rebellions took place in Ireland or Scotland, and they would be treated similar to the convicts, except that this also included women and children.-— Women and Children, FRiends. Scots and Irish— that is to say— WHITE people were indentured slaves who were enslaved for over 20 years to pay off their debts— which were constantly re-upped with new debt.
So— where’s OUR reparations? Hmmmm? Should we ask the UK for some dough?