For example, the British Tory government’s Education Secretary Michael Gove stated in 2014 that the comedy show Black Adder undermines Britain’s sense of national purpose and confidence. ... But Gove did not stop at indicting Black Adder; he went on to attack leftwing critiques..…

Although no friends of freedom themselves, the British colonial authorities demonstrated a willingness to exploit this slave unrest by offering freedom to any Black people prepared to take up arms against their owners. ..…

Painter recounts the largely forgotten history of white slavery in Europe and of white (and Black) indentured servants sent the to British colonies, pointing out that in mid–seventeenth-century Virginia bonded whites outnumbered Africans on tobacco plantations. ..…