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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... North American continent was an island - - and – like a number of contemporaries burned to prove the existence of a North - West Passage to China through the Arctic Circle . After studying every manuscript and classical text that he ...
... North American continent was an island - - and – like a number of contemporaries burned to prove the existence of a North - West Passage to China through the Arctic Circle . After studying every manuscript and classical text that he ...
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... NORTH On a bleak headland in the Orkney Isles off the north of Scotland stands a roughly made stone pillar , forty feet tall . It is a thin , tapering four - sided pillar in the form of an obelisk but , instead of the usual pyramidal ...
... NORTH On a bleak headland in the Orkney Isles off the north of Scotland stands a roughly made stone pillar , forty feet tall . It is a thin , tapering four - sided pillar in the form of an obelisk but , instead of the usual pyramidal ...
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... North's secret plot was hatched . It coincided dangerously with the delicate last stages of the peace talks in Versailles between Britain and the United States and her European allies . North secured the services of an ambitious risk ...
... North's secret plot was hatched . It coincided dangerously with the delicate last stages of the peace talks in Versailles between Britain and the United States and her European allies . North secured the services of an ambitious risk ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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