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 would look after them from there on . Neither the Dutch nor the British were expecting them and by now the migrants were running out of money to pay for the crossing . As their numbers swelled , they built a series of ...
... British would look after them from there on . Neither the Dutch nor the British were expecting them and by now the migrants were running out of money to pay for the crossing . As their numbers swelled , they built a series of ...
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... British convicts for his extra workload . In the 1750s , Benjamin Franklin , America's most gifted populist , planted himself at the head of those demanding an end to the convict trade . Writing in his paper , the Pennsylvania Gazette ...
... British convicts for his extra workload . In the 1750s , Benjamin Franklin , America's most gifted populist , planted himself at the head of those demanding an end to the convict trade . Writing in his paper , the Pennsylvania Gazette ...
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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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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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