Michael Hoffman is a former reporter for the Associated Press and the author of six books of radical history, journalism and literature. He describes himself as a “heretical writer.” Hoffman is also the managing editor of the newsletter Revisionist History. We discuss his book, They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America.
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First, Michael shares his inspiration for writing this book and why it is important to highlight this dark corner of suppressed history. He’ll tell of a hidden epoch, the slave trade of Whites, hundreds of thousands of whom were kidnapped, chained, whipped and worked to death in the American colonies and during the Industrial Revolution.