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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... BACON'S REBELLION To this day , Nathaniel Bacon remains a paradox . He was an aristocrat from one of England's most illustrious families yet he almost sent Britain packing from America a hundred years before George Washington . Some see ...
... BACON'S REBELLION To this day , Nathaniel Bacon remains a paradox . He was an aristocrat from one of England's most illustrious families yet he almost sent Britain packing from America a hundred years before George Washington . Some see ...
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... Bacon insisted on raising a force under his own control to wage war on the Native Americans , at which the Governor once more ordered his arrest . Bacon's class rhetoric increased . He published a Declaration of the People , indicting ...
... Bacon insisted on raising a force under his own control to wage war on the Native Americans , at which the Governor once more ordered his arrest . Bacon's class rhetoric increased . He published a Declaration of the People , indicting ...
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... Bacon's corpse but when the coffin was opened it was full of stones . The Governor was left with only a ditty to express his loathing for his dead adversary : ' Bacon is dead I am sorry at my heart / That lice and flux should take the ...
... Bacon's corpse but when the coffin was opened it was full of stones . The Governor was left with only a ditty to express his loathing for his dead adversary : ' Bacon is dead I am sorry at my heart / That lice and flux should take the ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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