White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in AmericaMainstream Pub., 2007 - 320 pages "White cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Briatin's American colonies." "Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Jordan and Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule." --book jacket. |
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... according to one rumour , ' probably a garrotter ' , too . Popham was born in 1531 into an affluent Somerset family . He read law at Balliol College , Oxford , and in his twenties he was called to the Bar and respectably married . Even ...
... according to one rumour , ' probably a garrotter ' , too . Popham was born in 1531 into an affluent Somerset family . He read law at Balliol College , Oxford , and in his twenties he was called to the Bar and respectably married . Even ...
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... According to the Virginian clergyman Morgan Godwin , 10,000 people were being spirited away every year by the late 1600s . But this figure has been described as ' absurdly large ' , inflated for the purpose of propaganda . * Walter ...
... According to the Virginian clergyman Morgan Godwin , 10,000 people were being spirited away every year by the late 1600s . But this figure has been described as ' absurdly large ' , inflated for the purpose of propaganda . * Walter ...
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... according to one report ; nearly twice that according to another.1 Presumably the buyers included those who knew exactly what was going on but were happy to turn a blind eye . The trade in white flesh seemed to have resumed as if there ...
... according to one report ; nearly twice that according to another.1 Presumably the buyers included those who knew exactly what was going on but were happy to turn a blind eye . The trade in white flesh seemed to have resumed as if there ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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acres Africans Algonquin America Annesley arrived Barbados became began Berkeley Hundred black slaves bondage boys Bradnox Bridewell British Captain Carolina CHAPTER Charles Charles Keeling Chesapeake Christopher claimed colonists colony convicts Coopy court death died Elizabeth emigrants England English enslaved felons followed forced free-willers freedom gaols George Gilbert gold Governor headright headright system History Humphrey Gilbert hundred indentured servants Ireland Irish island James Jamestown kidnapped King labour land later lives London Lord Maryland master merchants Mittelberger months murder Native Americans Negroes numbers Palatines Pennsylvania plantation planters poor Popham Popham colony prisoners Privy Council punishment Queen Raleigh rebellion rebels records reported returned Richard River Robert runaway sailed Scotland Scots sell sent servitude settlement settlers seventeenth century ship Sir Edwin Sandys Sir Thomas Smythe slavery Smith sold Spanish spirit story sugar tobacco took trade transportation Virginia Company voyage whipping white servants William Williamson women wrote young