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"Je crois qu’on ne peut pas être plus heureux" Les supporters du PSG ont célébré leur seconde victoire en Ligue des champions avec une grand-mère aux abords du Parc des Princes Notre reporter @RobinBernaud l'a retrouvée dans Paris
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America By Nancy Isenberg 2016 Thread 1/2 In this savage, myth-shattering book, historian Nancy Isenberg rips apart the lie that America was founded by free, equal white pioneers. She proves the white underclass the people branded “white trash,” “crackers,” “rednecks,” and “hillbillies” are the direct descendants of Britain’s human garbage, deliberately trafficked, raped, and bred into generational slavery to build the colonies. Hundreds of thousands of “waste people” orphans, vagrants, prostitutes, convicts, and starving poor were rounded up, shipped across the ocean like livestock, and sold to create cheap labor and more bodies. This wasn’t voluntary indenture. It was state-sponsored human trafficking and reproductive coercion engineered by English elites so their own poor could be used up, sexually exploited night after night, and forced to breed the next disposable generation before African slavery took over. The horrors started with the children. From 1618 onward, parish magistrates, Bridewell prison officials, and Virginia Company agents swept London’s streets for “troublesome urchins” as young as eight or ten. These kids fatherless boys and orphaned girls were snatched for petty crimes like stealing two spoons (one real case: Elizabeth “Little Bess” Armstrong shipped to Virginia) or simply for being poor. Known as “spiriting,” ship captains and agents drugged, locked, or beat them into holds for the hellish voyage. Thousands died en route or in the first “seasoning” year from disease, starvation, and overwork death rates hit 50% or higher. Survivors were auctioned naked on docks, poked and prodded, then bound to masters until adulthood: boys and girls alike forced into field labor, whipped bloody, fed slop, and treated as property that could be bought, sold, or gambled away. Their tiny bodies were worked to death in tobacco fields; those who lived became the permanent underclass. The sexual abuse of women and girls was systematic, legal, and the most profitable policy of all. The Virginia Company funded by rich English investors openly marketed white women and young female servants as “breeders” and “wives” sold for 150 pounds of tobacco each. Female servants had no rights whatsoever. Masters dragged them into barns, cabins, or the fields after dark and raped them repeatedly night after night until pregnancy was guaranteed. These assaults were so routine and brutal that pregnancy was treated as the woman’s crime, not the rapist’s. Colonial bastardy laws ordered savage public whippings that left backs raw and bleeding, heavy fines, and two or more extra years of bondage for the mother. The babies conceived in rape and born screaming were ripped from their mothers’ arms the moment they drew breath. These infants were immediately seized, auctioned off like livestock to the highest bidder, and bound into hereditary servitude from the cradle: boys and girls alike forced to serve until age 18 or 21, inheriting their mother’s unfree status forever even when the rapist master was the biological father. They were listed in planters’ wills and inventories right alongside tools, cattle, hogs, and barrels of tobacco “one bastard infant slave, to serve until 21.” Many of these babies died as toddlers from the same overwork, starvation rations, and casual beatings their mothers endured, their broken little bodies discarded in the fields like trash. The entire system turned poor white women into disposable wombs on an industrial scale: shipped as breeding stock, raped relentlessly until they produced the next crop of labor, then forced back into the fields while their infants were torn away and sold to perpetuate the cycle of horror. archive.org/details/whitet…
