For decades the story has been told Major motion pictures have used it as a premise We even teach it to our children But what if African slavery is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on any one group of people? Not to suggest it didn't happen but rather not in the context often presented as factual history. A conspiracy to suppress over 200-years of American history has kept everyone in the dark, made African Americans feel inferior and fueled the illusion of white superiority. When we think of slavery in American history, we are conditioned to go back only so far; the Trans-Atlantic African Slave Trade. But the truth of the matter is if we went back just a little further, we would find a world just as cold and just as cruel; directed exclusively towards white people They were kidnapped, put in chains, transported across vast oceans, torn from their families, auctioned, whipped, tarred and feathered, lynched, beat to death, malnourished, denied medical and worked until they literally dropped dead. Contrary to popular belief, America did not begin as a colony built on the labor of African slaves. This earliest and understandably most forgotten period in American history began with the systematic exploitation of labor, targeting only white slaves