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The back cover of historian and scholar Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control quotes the late Mr. Allen

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.

The primary source in an interview "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen Part 1.mov (see also "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen Part 2.mov for part 2 of the interview) clarifies precisely what they mean by the non-existence of "white" people in 1619 continuing for the following 60 years up to Bacon's Rebellion in 1676-1677

I wanted to stress that … regarding the white race is not a anthropological phenomenon but it is a social phenomenon, a historical phenomenon.

And I wanted to indicate further that it did not just happen, but it was deliberately formed.

And that's why I use the term invention…

In Volume I is Invention of the White Race: Racial oppression and Social Control in which I give a definition of racial oppression independent of phenotype and took the case of the Irish under the English occupation in the 13th century and then later in the 17th and 18th century, particularly the 18th century, under the penal laws to illustrate a case of racial oppression which was not connected with phenotype because between the Irish and the English there was no phenotypic differences or appearances…

Bacon's Rebellion started out as an anti-Indian war … became a revolt by of bond-laborers European-American and and African-American and poor farmers who had no land, had been formerly bond-laborers, they have but still didn't have any good land, and they joined together in this rebellion against the colony elites demanding land distribution and so on… and the thing that makes it historically significant is that African Americans and European American bond-laborers joined together in this rebellion en masse, large number, together, and fighting against oppression and for freedom, and for distributing of land. And that is historically significant because not only has it not been done again in 400 years, nearly 400 years, but it is significant because it shows that there was no white race at that time the white race has to be monolithic or it is nothing. If the white race, If the European Americans, who are the the ones who became white split on this issue of equal right or joining together with African Americans, then that's the end of the white race. And so I say this indicates, that's one indication, the most dramatic indication that the white race did not then exist.

Is the notable quote by Theodore W. Allen correct?

The back cover of historian and scholar Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control quotes the late Mr. Allen

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.

The primary source in an interview "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen Part 1.mov (see also "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen Part 2.mov for part 2 of the interview) clarifies precisely what they mean by the non-existence of "white" people in 1619 continuing for the following 60 years up to Bacon's Rebellion in 1676-1677

I wanted to stress that … regarding the white race is not a anthropological phenomenon but it is a social phenomenon, a historical phenomenon.

And I wanted to indicate further that it did not just happen, but it was deliberately formed.

And that's why I use the term invention…

In Volume I is Invention of the White Race: Racial oppression and Social Control in which I give a definition of racial oppression independent of phenotype and took the case of the Irish under the English occupation in the 13th century and then later in the 17th and 18th century, particularly the 18th century, under the penal laws to illustrate a case of racial oppression which was not connected with phenotype because between the Irish and the English there was no phenotypic differences or appearances…

Bacon's Rebellion started out as an anti-Indian war … became a revolt by of bond-laborers European-American and and African-American and poor farmers who had no land, had been formerly bond-laborers, they have but still didn't have any good land, and they joined together in this rebellion against the colony elites demanding land distribution and so on… and the thing that makes it historically significant is that African Americans and European American bond-laborers joined together in this rebellion en masse, large number, together, and fighting against oppression and for freedom, and for distributing of land. And that is historically significant because not only has it not been done again in 400 years, nearly 400 years, but it is significant because it shows that there was no white race at that time the white race has to be monolithic or it is nothing. If the white race, if the European Americans, who are the the ones who became white split on this issue of equal rights or joining together with African Americans, then that's the end of the white race. And so I say this indicates, that's one indication, the most dramatic indication that the white race did not then exist.

Is the notable quote by Theodore W. Allen correct?

The back cover of historian and scholar Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control quotes the late Mr. Allen

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.

The primary source in an interview "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen Part 1.mov clarifies precisely what they mean by the non-existence of "white" people in 1619 continuing for the following 60 years up to Bacon's Rebellion in 1676-1677

I wanted to stress that … regarding the white race is not a anthropological phenomenon but it is a social phenomenon, a historical phenomenon.

And I wanted to indicate further that it did not just happen, but it was deliberately formed.

And that's why I use the term invention…

In Volume I is Invention of the White Race: Racial oppression and Social Control in which I give a definition of racial oppression independent of phenotype and took the case of the Irish under the English occupation in the 13th century and then later in the 17th and 18th century, particularly the 18th century, under the penal laws to illustrate a case of racial oppression which was not connected with phenotype because between the Irish and the English there was no phenotypic differences or appearances…

Bacon's Rebellion started out as an anti-Indian war … became a revolt by of bond-laborers European-American and and African-American and poor farmers who had no land, had been formerly bond-laborers, they have but still didn't have any good land, and they joined together in this rebellion against the colony elites demanding land distribution and so on… and the thing that makes it historically significant is that African Americans and European American bond-laborers joined together in this rebellion en masse, large number, together, and fighting against oppression and for freedom, and for distributing of land. And that is historically significant because not only has it not been done again in 400 years, nearly 400 years, but it is significant because it shows that there was no white race at that time the white race has to be monolithic or it is nothing. If the white race, If the European Americans, who are the the ones who became white split on this issue of equal right or joining together with African Americans, then that's the end of the white race. And so I say this indicates, that's one indication, the most dramatic indication that the white race did not then exist.

Is the notable quote by Theodore W. Allen correct?

The back cover of historian and scholar Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control quotes the late Mr. Allen

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.

The primary source in an interview "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen Part 1.mov (see also "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen Part 2.mov for part 2 of the interview) clarifies precisely what they mean by the non-existence of "white" people in 1619 continuing for the following 60 years up to Bacon's Rebellion in 1676-1677

I wanted to stress that … regarding the white race is not a anthropological phenomenon but it is a social phenomenon, a historical phenomenon.

And I wanted to indicate further that it did not just happen, but it was deliberately formed.

And that's why I use the term invention…

In Volume I is Invention of the White Race: Racial oppression and Social Control in which I give a definition of racial oppression independent of phenotype and took the case of the Irish under the English occupation in the 13th century and then later in the 17th and 18th century, particularly the 18th century, under the penal laws to illustrate a case of racial oppression which was not connected with phenotype because between the Irish and the English there was no phenotypic differences or appearances…

Bacon's Rebellion started out as an anti-Indian war … became a revolt by of bond-laborers European-American and and African-American and poor farmers who had no land, had been formerly bond-laborers, they have but still didn't have any good land, and they joined together in this rebellion against the colony elites demanding land distribution and so on… and the thing that makes it historically significant is that African Americans and European American bond-laborers joined together in this rebellion en masse, large number, together, and fighting against oppression and for freedom, and for distributing of land. And that is historically significant because not only has it not been done again in 400 years, nearly 400 years, but it is significant because it shows that there was no white race at that time the white race has to be monolithic or it is nothing. If the white race, If the European Americans, who are the the ones who became white split on this issue of equal right or joining together with African Americans, then that's the end of the white race. And so I say this indicates, that's one indication, the most dramatic indication that the white race did not then exist.

Is the notable quote by Theodore W. Allen correct?

The back cover of historian and scholar Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control quotes the late Mr. Allen

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.

Is the notable quote by Theodore W. Allen correct?

The back cover of historian and scholar Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control quotes the late Mr. Allen

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.

The primary source in an interview "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen Part 1.mov clarifies precisely what they mean by the non-existence of "white" people in 1619 continuing for the following 60 years up to Bacon's Rebellion in 1676-1677

I wanted to stress that … regarding the white race is not a anthropological phenomenon but it is a social phenomenon, a historical phenomenon.

And I wanted to indicate further that it did not just happen, but it was deliberately formed.

And that's why I use the term invention…

In Volume I is Invention of the White Race: Racial oppression and Social Control in which I give a definition of racial oppression independent of phenotype and took the case of the Irish under the English occupation in the 13th century and then later in the 17th and 18th century, particularly the 18th century, under the penal laws to illustrate a case of racial oppression which was not connected with phenotype because between the Irish and the English there was no phenotypic differences or appearances…

Bacon's Rebellion started out as an anti-Indian war … became a revolt by of bond-laborers European-American and and African-American and poor farmers who had no land, had been formerly bond-laborers, they have but still didn't have any good land, and they joined together in this rebellion against the colony elites demanding land distribution and so on… and the thing that makes it historically significant is that African Americans and European American bond-laborers joined together in this rebellion en masse, large number, together, and fighting against oppression and for freedom, and for distributing of land. And that is historically significant because not only has it not been done again in 400 years, nearly 400 years, but it is significant because it shows that there was no white race at that time the white race has to be monolithic or it is nothing. If the white race, If the European Americans, who are the the ones who became white split on this issue of equal right or joining together with African Americans, then that's the end of the white race. And so I say this indicates, that's one indication, the most dramatic indication that the white race did not then exist.

Is the notable quote by Theodore W. Allen correct?