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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... acres for every new settler . This land went to whoever paid the settler's passage . News of the scheme led to a frantic scramble amongst speculators and planters to sign up hopeful young people willing to become their servants and be ...
... acres for every new settler . This land went to whoever paid the settler's passage . News of the scheme led to a frantic scramble amongst speculators and planters to sign up hopeful young people willing to become their servants and be ...
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... acres . Another fifty - three servants later recruited in the south - west of England would add a further 2,650 acres . On top of that , many more thousands of acres became due because of shares the syndicate bought in the Virginia ...
... acres . Another fifty - three servants later recruited in the south - west of England would add a further 2,650 acres . On top of that , many more thousands of acres became due because of shares the syndicate bought in the Virginia ...
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... acres for the first dividend , 3000 for the second dividend and 3000 acres for the third . Tucker had a taste for understatement . His will ended : ' Such land may prove beneficial in time to my heir.'13 ' Of hundreds of people who ...
... acres for the first dividend , 3000 for the second dividend and 3000 acres for the third . Tucker had a taste for understatement . His will ended : ' Such land may prove beneficial in time to my heir.'13 ' Of hundreds of people who ...
Table des matières
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