social contract issues: out of sight, out of mind

The recent Internet publication of old books and articles relating to the settlement of the American colonies has shocked many people, especially retirees, in their new found hobby of ancestry. Looking for ancestral pilgrims and martyrs in accordance with the story of America's glorious past they were taught, they found instead -- as Mikki did -- a convicted felon who evaded execution in the Old Country by transportation – a form of global offshoring of people - and worked as a slave alongside kidnapped Negroes on the tobacco plantations of Virginia.

“He survived, but many didn't, and while our times may be different the social issues are the same,” says Mikki. “Lies, felons, slave-drivers and profiteers (especially in far away places).”

"Reading the truth about our early colonists, even the so-called pilgrims and martyrs had blood on their hands and greed in their eyes so being related to any of the early Americans is nothing to be proud of," says Mikki. "The whole period of colonization from 1607 to 1775 was far from a glorious beginning -- it was tainted by convict transportation, white and black slavery, indigenous massacres, human misery, biblical greed and massive profiteering that makes our current global CEOs look tame."

"It's the curse of globalization, isn't it," sighs Mikki, "out of sight, out of mind. Evils happening in far away places tend not to bother us, and that's why offshoring is as popular now as it was in 1607 when white slavery to the colonies commenced.”

"By the 1800s, after two hundred years of profiting from slavery, the newly rich American bucks and debutantes descended upon Europe to make advantageous marriages and it was at this time, I think, that ancestry necessarily became a hushed affair."

"Neither the rich Americans nor the impoverished European nobility wanted the dirty facts of the American colonial period to become public knowledge and spoil their marriages of convenience -- tainted American money buying titles of distinction, bucks for baronets and that sort of stuff."

"It was, however, well known among the British gentleman's clubs in the 1800s that a lot of prominent Americans were tainted by convict ancestry and ill-gotten gains," says Mikki, "but these facts, along with others relating to the dissolute nature of some European aristocrats, just didn't become common knowledge."

"It was important in those days to keep up social appearances and maintain an absolute divide between the upper and lower classes," explains Mikki, "and if that meant allowing into gentile society some fabulously rich Americans of dubious birth then so be it."

‘Today, fabulously rich people of all cultures have arrived at that status by the same means – enslaving their own and others in the most heinous global trade of all.”

Read more by Mikki on this issue:

a nation built on white slavery

globalized slavery

whitewashing slavery

Britons never will be slaves?

so you think you’re a slave?

Tobacco and America's Convict Past

digging up your ancestors

is slavery the human condition?

the ghosts of slavery

kidnapped children

black v white slavery

slave migrations