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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... Native Americans to track down the fugitives and bring them back . Percy reported : ' Some he appointed to be hanged , some burned , some to be broken upon wheels , others to be staked and some to be shot to death . ' Thieves faced a ...
... Native Americans to track down the fugitives and bring them back . Percy reported : ' Some he appointed to be hanged , some burned , some to be broken upon wheels , others to be staked and some to be shot to death . ' Thieves faced a ...
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... Native Americans , some by disease and some by infections caught in the jam - packed ships bringing them . And judging by what we know of life in the tobacco fields in subsequent years , some were worked to death . On the Berkeley ...
... Native Americans , some by disease and some by infections caught in the jam - packed ships bringing them . And judging by what we know of life in the tobacco fields in subsequent years , some were worked to death . On the Berkeley ...
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... Native Americans killed in an effort to clear them all from the Chesapeake or kill them . - In fact , in 1622 it was the Native Americans not the settlers who had taken slaves the twenty women captured at John Martin's plantation during ...
... Native Americans killed in an effort to clear them all from the Chesapeake or kill them . - In fact , in 1622 it was the Native Americans not the settlers who had taken slaves the twenty women captured at John Martin's plantation during ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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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