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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... Irish across the Atlantic . The political events that led up to this mass migration of people began in England but quickly spread to Ireland . As relations between Charles I and Parliament worsened in the 1640s , the Irish Catholics saw ...
... Irish across the Atlantic . The political events that led up to this mass migration of people began in England but quickly spread to Ireland . As relations between Charles I and Parliament worsened in the 1640s , the Irish Catholics saw ...
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... Irish dearly they lost not only their lands but what remained of their reputation . The Irish character , already blackened by Cambrensis and by a tendency to stage occasional uprisings , was reputed to be so bad that when American ...
... Irish dearly they lost not only their lands but what remained of their reputation . The Irish character , already blackened by Cambrensis and by a tendency to stage occasional uprisings , was reputed to be so bad that when American ...
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... Irish servants like Goody Glover and her daughter in Massachusetts , though other American colonies remained open to the importation of Irish labour . The same was true for island colonies such as Jamaica and Barbados . To this day in ...
... Irish servants like Goody Glover and her daughter in Massachusetts , though other American colonies remained open to the importation of Irish labour . The same was true for island colonies such as Jamaica and Barbados . To this day in ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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acres Africans Algonquin America Annesley arrived Barbados became began Berkeley Hundred black slaves bondage boys Bradnox Bridewell British Captain Carolina CHAPTER Charles Charles Keeling Chesapeake Christopher claimed colonists colony convicts Coopy court death died Elizabeth emigrants England English enslaved felons followed forced free-willers freedom gaols George Gilbert gold Governor headright headright system History Humphrey Gilbert hundred indentured servants Ireland Irish island James Jamestown kidnapped King labour land later lives London Lord Maryland master merchants Mittelberger months murder Native Americans Negroes numbers Palatines Pennsylvania plantation planters poor Popham Popham colony prisoners Privy Council punishment Queen Raleigh rebellion rebels records reported returned Richard River Robert runaway sailed Scotland Scots sell sent servitude settlement settlers seventeenth century ship Sir Edwin Sandys Sir Thomas Smythe slavery Smith sold Spanish spirit story sugar tobacco took trade transportation Virginia Company voyage whipping white servants William Williamson women wrote young