Ephraim (UK) versus Manasseh (USA)
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Immigrants to North America from the West and North
3. Immigrants to North America Emerged from a Separated Social Class among the English
1. Introduction
We identify the English-speaking peoples with the Tribes of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh.
Ephraim is dominant among the British and their offshoots, the USA is identified with Manasseh.
Nevertheless it is not a heretical division. Elements from Ephraim are present in the USA and from Manasseh in the British Isles.
This division is demonstrable from ethnic names and national attributes.
So too there were social differences between the early Foundational Groups in North America who came out of the British isles on the one side and on the other there were they who remained in Britain and were dominant there.
This may also have been reflected in Physical and DNA Distinctions, see Physical Differences.Ephraim versus Manasseh in Biology?
2. Immigrants to North America from the West and North
In fact there were ethnic differences between the British descendants in North America and the English establishment that ruled over them.
Most of the Colonials were from the West and north of England and from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
"Based on the statistics of the U.S. Department of Labour and the assumption that 2/3 of the.immigrants from England had had such antecedents".
Calvin KEPHART, "Races of Mankind, Their Origin and Migration," N.Y. 1960, p.438, n.314.
3. Immigrants to North America Emerged from a Separated Social Class among the English
The English who claimed the right to rule from England over North America were dominated by groups from the south and east of England. Even those relatively few colonials in North America who were from the East of England were different from the others.
Historical Geneaologist, Linda Merle, in a private message to us has expressed her impressions that Not only did the early migrants to America come from specific areas BUT also they usually belonged to definable social groups or rather to no definable group. Under the semi-fuedal system that had previously prevailed many had remained outside of the system. They appear to have been distinct from the rest of the population. In a Tribal sense, they could well have pertained to separate groups. A similar scenario existed in other parts of Europe.
In England and Wales in the 1500s and 1600s the ancient system of farming in open fields was ended by a process known as Enclosure. Land that had previously been shared among villagers was heneceforth fenced (enclosed) and deeded or entitled to one or more owners. Villagers who had previously supported themselves by the common sharing of fields found themselves in need of support. Consequently many migrated to North America. They did this by paying for their own passage, by indentured labor, or through being transported as convicts.
Linda Merle opined, concerning England in the 1600s and the movement to North America tells us:
# The records all seem to agree that in the unenclosed areas of England there were many people living. It is impossible to know how many since there are no records. However one of the drives behind enclosing was to eliminate these people. They surface in history at the time of the English Civil War and afterwards during the Interregnum when apparently many of the radical ideas of the time originated with them. Some religious movements, especially Anabaptism, the Familists, and even the Quakers, rose among them. They tended to be itinerant-- so they could spread ideas easily while moving about as tinkers, or whatever. Their ministers were often itinerant, as Christopher Hill documents. Of course with the Restoration many of these people were imprisoned or had to flee. Many were transported to America as vagrants or criminals.... These people probably had a great influence on the American revolution and on the form of government that evolved here later. Much of the ideas, according to Hill, were passed around in pubs rather than in written literature, due to censorship. ... Benjamin Franklin said that in his day up to 1/3rd of Americans were descended from criminals. Of course many of them were vagrants or political or religious cases. From the point of view of the English, these inhabitants of the fens and forests were "masterless men", a danger to the country, and vagrants. So off they went. Then in the Americas these same people pushed into the wildernesses, where they survived well, pushing successively westward as civilization encroached on them. It was not a new pattern to them. #
We therefore find in North America people from the British isles who were nevertheless DIFFERENT from those who remained in England.
A similar phenomenon was to occur later in Europe in general. During the 1700s and 1800s migrants from Europe and especially from Germany came to the USA in great numbers. Indications are that these too were different from the Europeans who did not migrate to the USA but stayed where they were.