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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... carried into a shelter for sick workers , Jack observes : ' I think they should call it the condemned hole , for it ... carrying them put in at Donaghadee in the north of Ireland for supplies and the innocent islanders escaped ...
... carried into a shelter for sick workers , Jack observes : ' I think they should call it the condemned hole , for it ... carrying them put in at Donaghadee in the north of Ireland for supplies and the innocent islanders escaped ...
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... carrying off boys to the plantations in America and selling them there as slaves was carried on with an amazing effrontery ... and by open violence . The whole neighbouring country were alarmed at it . They would not allow their ...
... carrying off boys to the plantations in America and selling them there as slaves was carried on with an amazing effrontery ... and by open violence . The whole neighbouring country were alarmed at it . They would not allow their ...
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... carried an advert in January 1735 offering Irish Protestant emigrants to New York a special deal . Land purchased ... carrying off 1,000 passengers hither ' . However , the Archbishop then put his finger on what was really sending so ...
... carried an advert in January 1735 offering Irish Protestant emigrants to New York a special deal . Land purchased ... carrying off 1,000 passengers hither ' . However , the Archbishop then put his finger on what was really sending so ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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