The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-12
WHITE SLAVERY.
Its Horrors a Blot Upon American Co
 '@ Ioniai History.

loniai History.
 "The negro slave, with his pictur- esque and touching personality is a fa-
 miliar figure, says Annie NettIeton
 Bourne in "The New England Maga.
 zine" Tn our pity for him we forget 1 that when the first cargo of blacks
 reached America in 1919 a large part of l the population was formed of imported white bond servants whose history is in some respects more affecting than l that of the negroes.
 White bond servants were of four
 ciasseseonvicts, indentured servants,
 the victims of kidnappers and the re- idemptioners. There is little but hard ship in the contemporary story of how
 they fared in this asylum for the op-
 pressed of all nations Socially and po- l litically they had no existence. They
 had no voice in the general or local ad- ministration of affairs and were denied
 the right of suffrage. No servant was allowed to carry SrTns or to go more than two miles fIbm home without a note under his masters hand. None of l these restrictions seem unsuitable as applied to slaves, but we must bear in
 mind in studying the history of white
 bond servants that they included in
 their class not only agricultural labor+ CTS, artisans and mechanics, but also organists, students of the apothecary's art and schoolmasters.
 "Emigrants of this kind came as re- l demptioners or free-willers. It was their own choice to come, but they are very foolish,' writes Gottleb Mittel-
 berger (who emigrated to Pennsylva- mia as schoolmaster), to believe that
 roasted pigeons will fly Into their mouths ins America or Pennsylvania
 without working for them Redemp-
 toners left home with the expectation os being allwed stipulated number of
 days in which to settle themselves to
 the greatest advantage. They were ass
 sured by the so-called, rewlanders, l. men thieves says Mtttelberger, who fnveigle people of every rank and profession .. soldiers. scholars,
 artists and mechanics that 1t they had
 nc friends it would be easy to find per- sens willing to defray the expenses of the passage, this amount so he repaid SIGtellly lIOIu llLG uetlluSOEltsS Gf the victim. The following t,escrir- tor os the sort of fate that actually
 befell them was written in Philadelphia in 1877: 5.ss. "'Seeing the following advertisement in the newspapers, but in by the cap- tain and owners of the vessel referred to, I visited the ship, in company with bootmaker of this city:
 THE PASSENGERS S.
 On board the brig Bubona, from Am sterdam, and who are willing to engage themselves for limited time. to defray the expenses of their passage, consist of
 persons of the follwing occupations. be-
 sides women and children. viz, rhir- teen farmers, two bakers two butchers. eight weavers, three taylors, one gar dener, three masons. one mil. sayy CT, one whitesmith, two shoemakers, three
 cabinetnlakers, one coal burner, one
 barber, one carpenter, one stocking
 weaver. Apply on board Of the Bubo- na, opposite Callowhill street, in fhe
 river Delaware, or to Odlin & Co., 3s
 South Wharves, October ?. *'}
 "'As we ascended the side of this
 hulk, a most revoiting scene of want $ rsa aT