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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... 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 could ...
... 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 could ...
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... North America : for a start , it was much closer . The Solicitor General , Sir Francis Bacon , thought the Irish project scored strongly on religious , political and investment criteria . The financial arrangements for the two ventures ...
... North America : for a start , it was much closer . The Solicitor General , Sir Francis Bacon , thought the Irish project scored strongly on religious , political and investment criteria . The financial arrangements for the two ventures ...
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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 ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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