Modern English people have forgotten many of their nasty “inventions,” for example the institution of “servants” from the 17th century. For more than a hundred years, Britain forcibly sent to America a total of 50,000 white slaves—its own citizens! They were transported in packed holds where hungry people hunted ship rats, and sometimes, driven insane by hunger, passengers ate the bodies of dead companions. The number of white slaves exceeded that of black slaves. Data for Virginia for 1683 states: three thousand black slaves and twelve thousand white. And finally, the most disgraceful page in the history of servants: in an English colony, children were forcibly sent…