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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... Queen Isabella in 1497 to promise a pardon to convicts facing death if they would agree to go on Christopher Columbus's third expedition . Half a century later , the Marquis de la Roche , an old adversary of Gilbert's , took his pick ...
... Queen Isabella in 1497 to promise a pardon to convicts facing death if they would agree to go on Christopher Columbus's third expedition . Half a century later , the Marquis de la Roche , an old adversary of Gilbert's , took his pick ...
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... Queen ; the three - year struggle to sustain this precarious foothold ; the disastrous failure to re - supply the colonists during the war with Spain ; the colonists ' unexplained disappearance and the futile expeditions launched by ...
... Queen ; the three - year struggle to sustain this precarious foothold ; the disastrous failure to re - supply the colonists during the war with Spain ; the colonists ' unexplained disappearance and the futile expeditions launched by ...
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... Queen Anne had helped a small band of fifty Palatines emigrate to America in 1708. The beneficent queen had apparently paid for their upkeep and lodgings in London and for their passage to America , and even provided assistance until ...
... Queen Anne had helped a small band of fifty Palatines emigrate to America in 1708. The beneficent queen had apparently paid for their upkeep and lodgings in London and for their passage to America , and even provided assistance until ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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