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A-albionic Research "Weekly Up-Date" of January 10, 2000
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In this issue:
1. A Land of Bondage
2. "Subscribers Only Area" Up-dates
3. Recent Recommended Reading Up-dates
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1. A Land of Bondage, A Review of:
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_WITH LIBERTY FOR SOME: 500 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT IN AMERICA_
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A land of bondage
WITH LIBERTY FOR SOME: 500 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT IN AMERICA.=20 By Scott
Christianson. Northeastern University; 394 pages; $35.00 + $3.95 postage
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FOR the land of the free, the United States puts an extraordinary number
of its citizens behind bars. After Russia, it has the second-highest rate
of imprisonment in the world. One in every 163 Americans is in jail or
prison, a rate six times the average in Europe. America=92s zeal for
imprisonment is usually attributed to a recent shift towards harsh
law-enforcement policies, especially against drug users. To some degree,
this is true. The number of people locked up has tripled since 1980. But
this recent surge is anything but an anomaly. Bondage of one sort or
another has played a central role in American history from the beginning.
It is no exaggeration to say that prisoners did as much as free men and
women to establish the United States as a nation.
Most Americans will scoff at this idea. Australia accepts its history as a
prison colony. But Americans, with the notable exception of blacks, still
cherish the idea of a country founded by hardy individualists, who spurned
the oppressions of a rigid European order to build a better society in the
wilderness of the New World. In fact, as detailed in Scott Christianson's
fascinating new book, a large proportion of white immigrants to early
America arrived in chains as prisoners, indentured servants or bonded
labourers. Their Atlantic crossing was almost as terrible as that of the
black slaves being shipped at the same time from Africa. Between a third
and a half of white immigrants died on some voyages. Once in America,
their lot was often only marginally better than that of slaves. Their
biggest advantage over slaves was that they could look forward to being
free once their term of imprisonment or service was over. Many, of course,
never lived to see that day. For any American brought up on the more
benign view of American history taught in the nation=92s schools, Mr
Christianson's work will be something of a shock. But the evidence he
marshals is simply too massive to ignore.
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, Britain operated a system of
severely punitive laws designed as much to provide cheap labour for its
American colonies as to curb crime. In an age when there was no
established police force, private agents called =93spirits=94=97many of
them criminals themselves=97were paid to apprehend supposed lawbreakers.
Large numbers of people=97including hordes of poor or abandoned
children=97were simply kidnapped off the streets of London and other big
cities, and then sold with the blessing of a magistrate as felons or
bonded labourers to ship captains, who transported them to the American
colonies where they were resold as labourers to the highest bidder. One
purchaser of felons was George Washington. This practice continued right
up to the American revolution, which caused a prison crisis in Britain
when hostilities interrupted prisoner exports.
Even those colonists who emigrated voluntarily exhibited a taste for
imprisoning others. One of the first public buildings erected in Boston,
in 1632 when the town consisted of only 40 dwellings, was a "house of
correction". Over the next 250 years, as America was settled, jails and
prisons were always among the first public facilities built. For people
trying to make their way in a wild continent, this was strange. Prisons
and jails are expensive. Other societies relied more on different, cheaper
ways to maintain discipline. In fact, once jails were built, Americans
spent little on prisoners. Life "inside" was usually horrific. Frequently
prisoners were left in dark cells to starve or die in their own filth.
When larger state prisons were built, reformers sought a more enlightened
regime. Rehabilitation through penitence had a vogue--hence the term
"penitentiary". But even the best of these places were grim, involving
unbearably long stretches of solitary confinement. After visiting one such
penitentiary, Charles Dickens, well acquainted with the unsavoury English
prisons of the period, turned away appalled, denouncing extended solitary
confinement as "cruel and wrong". Most other attempts at rehabilitation
foundered on popular hostility or indifference, as they still do today.
Whatever white Americans were suffering, it is a safe rule of thumb that
black Americans suffered more. Mr Christianson's account of black slavery
is revealing on two counts. Drawing on a crop of recent studies, he
derides the curiously persistent belief that most black slaves in the
South led lives of rural contentment, except for the occasional family
break-up when someone was sold "downriver". Southern slavery was enforced
with whips, chains, beatings, rape and legally sanctioned murder. Southern
whites knew what they were doing, and reasonably lived in constant fear of
a black uprising, which then prompted them to be even more brutal. Blacks
were desperate to escape. Many took enormous risks to do so. Those caught
often paid with their lives.
Mr Christianson also makes clear why free blacks, throughout America's
history, have supposedly committed a disproportionate number of crimes and
suffered similarly disproportionate rates of imprisonment. It is not
because they have been more disposed towards criminality but because, well
into the 20th century, they were legally barred from doing almost anything
to better themselves. In many states they were excluded from all but the
most menial jobs. Until the Civil War, free blacks had almost no legal
rights of any kind, even in the North. After the war, most were not much
better off.
Incredibly high rates of imprisonment continue to scar American blacks
today. The incarceration rate for black men is eight times that for
whites. Most inner-city black children grow up with a father, uncle or
big brother in prison. The social costs of this are enormous.
In his final chapter, Mr Christianson describes the burgeoning
prison-industrial complex, based on prison labour, which has brought
wealth to many smaller towns and cities where prisons are based. America
seems to have come full circle--imprisonment is once again as much about
profit as punishment. As this book makes clear, popular support for mass
incarceration and ever longer prison sentences is not merely a by-product
of the past two decades' war on crime, but a consistent and ugly side of
American society which has remained unquestioned for far too long.
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3. Recommended Reading Up-Dates:
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_The Secret Behind Secret Societies: Liberation of the Planet in the 21st
Century_ by Jon Rappoport, 1998 In Print Paperback, 410 pages, Order
#01143 $29.95
Exposes the ancient, malign methodology of the creativity crushing
conspiracy.
_Clinton Confidential: The Unauthorized Biogrpaphy of Bill and Hillary
Clinton_--New Up-dated 1998 Edition by George Carpozi, Jr., 1995 In Print
Paperback, 678 pages, Order #01144 23.95
An unauthorized biography of the first couple contends that, from his
first political appointment as Arkansas's attorney general, Bill Clinton
had
an eye to his current office and pursued it with
Machiavellian ruthlessness.
_. . .and the truth shall set you free: The most explosive book of the
20th century_ by david Icke, 1995 In Print Paperback, 518 pages, Order
#01142 $21.95
New age libertarian take on the evils of the New World Order conspiracy
and how to defeat it.
_Lifting the Veil: "Most Controversial Speaker in the World" David Icke
Interviewed by Jon Rappoport_ by Jon Rappoport, 1998 In Print Paperback,
135 pages, Order #01146 $6.95
Reveals the truth about Big Religion, Big Government, Big Broadcaster,
Big Banks, and Big Business--all run by an interlocking Big Brotherhood.
_Madalyn Murray O'Hair: The Amazing Disappearance--AND POSSIBLE MURDER--
of the O'Hair Family "The Most Hate Woman in America"_ by Jon Rappoport,
1998 In Print Paperback, 170 pages, Order #01145 $6.95
The mysterious disappearance of America's First Family of Atheism.
Victim of religious extremists or foul play?
_Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective_ by J.
Philippe Rushton, 1995 Rare/Out-of-Print Hardcover, 334 pages, Order
#01141 $45.00
Takes several steps beyond "The Bell Curve" in flaunting the taboos of
racial political correctness by sifting the research literature for
evidence of race-based differences in intelligence, behavior, character,
hormones, sexual potency, physiology, socio-biology, speed of maturation,
etc. in the context divergent of evolution is disparate environments.
_They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the
Enslavement of Whites in Early America_ by Michael A. Hoffman II, 1991 In
Print Paperback, 0086 pages, Order #00501 $15.00
Expanded edition of the author's challenging book. In addition to the
obvious use to which this book is being put in pro-White circles to
counter Black claims for quotas and reparations, the question of the
conspiracy's real motives through Establishment History in suppressing and
minimizing white slavery through the ages and, in particular, in colonial
America, is very effectively raised. Will the New World Order be truly
"multi-cultural" with the eventual amalgamation and obliteration of the
races or are Whites, and Colored too, being subtly encouraged to view
remain separate through a laughable false history which depicts Whites as
the only real slavers and Blacks and Native Americans as the only real
slaves in the interests of maintaining a "divide and conquer" system? This
falsehood obviously intensifies Black rage against the entire White Race
instead of the tiny ruling class which benefitted from slavery and
continues to rule the world. Whites, on the other hand, are encouraged to
believe the false notion that they are and always have been a specially
privileged elite. This leads them to unconsciously serve as the bodyguard
of the conspiracy against the assaults of enraged "minorities". This
system of manipulation may continue to work even after Whites are no
longer the majority in America! --
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