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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... Ireland but under Elizabeth I the desire to impose some uniformity of religion upon Ireland became much more strident . By the middle of the 1600s , Irish Catholics - the vast majority of the people – found themselves subject to an ...
... Ireland but under Elizabeth I the desire to impose some uniformity of religion upon Ireland became much more strident . By the middle of the 1600s , Irish Catholics - the vast majority of the people – found themselves subject to an ...
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... Ireland had only one goal : the total subjugation of Ireland by the method of destroying its people and planting in their stead Protestant stock from England and Scotland . The destruction of the Irish was to be carried out by three ...
... Ireland had only one goal : the total subjugation of Ireland by the method of destroying its people and planting in their stead Protestant stock from England and Scotland . The destruction of the Irish was to be carried out by three ...
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... Ireland contributed convicts and free - willers . As was happening to people up and down the Rhine , the Irish were the target of the hard sell on the wonders of life in the New World . Merchants published advertisements , bogus letters ...
... Ireland contributed convicts and free - willers . As was happening to people up and down the Rhine , the Irish were the target of the hard sell on the wonders of life in the New World . Merchants published advertisements , bogus letters ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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