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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... Christopher Newport had made his reputation more than a decade earlier , plundering and burning on the Spanish Main as one of Sir Walter Raleigh's captains . He was grizzled and gruff and could have accumulated enough money to retire ...
... Christopher Newport had made his reputation more than a decade earlier , plundering and burning on the Spanish Main as one of Sir Walter Raleigh's captains . He was grizzled and gruff and could have accumulated enough money to retire ...
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... Christopher ( now St Kitts ) , where some French had already settled . Captain Thomas Warner , a dogged Suffolk Puritan , together with his wife , son and a small number of men , claimed the island for James I. Warner had already ...
... Christopher ( now St Kitts ) , where some French had already settled . Captain Thomas Warner , a dogged Suffolk Puritan , together with his wife , son and a small number of men , claimed the island for James I. Warner had already ...
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... Christopher . Although this number seems improbable , we can take it that a good number of Irish did arrive on the island . In whatever manner they arrived , as voluntary indentured servants or as transportees , they became , in their ...
... Christopher . Although this number seems improbable , we can take it that a good number of Irish did arrive on the island . In whatever manner they arrived , as voluntary indentured servants or as transportees , they became , in their ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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