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. |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-3 sur 68
Page 91
... arriving in the heat of the Chesapeake ' a most unfit season ' when passengers arrived ' very weak and sick ' , there to fall under ' the great heat of weather ' . As a consequence , considerable numbers died either at sea or soon after ...
... arriving in the heat of the Chesapeake ' a most unfit season ' when passengers arrived ' very weak and sick ' , there to fall under ' the great heat of weather ' . As a consequence , considerable numbers died either at sea or soon after ...
Page 143
... arrive on the island . In whatever manner they arrived , as voluntary indentured servants or as transportees , they became , in their multitudes , slaves in the plantations . St Christopher prospered through tobacco . Those Irish who ...
... arrive on the island . In whatever manner they arrived , as voluntary indentured servants or as transportees , they became , in their multitudes , slaves in the plantations . St Christopher prospered through tobacco . Those Irish who ...
Page 144
... arrived in Kinsale on 28 April , four months before the Abraham , Anthony vigorously put the word out for people wishing to start a new life , writing on 13 September ( the spelling and grammar are so idiosyncratic that we have changed ...
... arrived in Kinsale on 28 April , four months before the Abraham , Anthony vigorously put the word out for people wishing to start a new life , writing on 13 September ( the spelling and grammar are so idiosyncratic that we have changed ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
13 autres sections non affichées
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
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