White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in AmericaMainstream, 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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... British Isles would have been transplanted to British America . The vast majority of these British colonists would be indentured servants . The first of them to put down permanent roots beyond the Chesapeake were those seekers of ...
... British Isles would have been transplanted to British America . The vast majority of these British colonists would be indentured servants . The first of them to put down permanent roots beyond the Chesapeake were those seekers of ...
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... British convict ships at the start of the war . It was surely inconceivable that the new nation , the United States of America , proudly independent , would ever allow a single British convict in again . However , in the summer of 1783 ...
... British convict ships at the start of the war . It was surely inconceivable that the new nation , the United States of America , proudly independent , would ever allow a single British convict in again . However , in the summer of 1783 ...
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... British Library catalogue of additions to the manuscripts , additional manuscripts 51071-51204 ( British Library , 1991 ) Chalmers , George , Parliamentary Portraits ; or , Characters of the British Senate ( Bellamy , 1795 ) Cheyney ...
... British Library catalogue of additions to the manuscripts , additional manuscripts 51071-51204 ( British Library , 1991 ) Chalmers , George , Parliamentary Portraits ; or , Characters of the British Senate ( Bellamy , 1795 ) Cheyney ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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| Titre | White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America |
| Auteurs | Don Jordan, Michael Walsh |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | Mainstream, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1845961951, 9781845961954 |
| Longueur | 320 pages |
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