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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... century later , Pascal wrote of this conflict : ' Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction . ' While still in his early twenties , Gilbert headed a contingent of 1,000 English ...
... century later , Pascal wrote of this conflict : ' Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction . ' While still in his early twenties , Gilbert headed a contingent of 1,000 English ...
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... century English farm labourer's rate of ten pence to a shilling a day - or about £ 15 a year . This would mean that over a four- or five - year period of indenture , total wages would amount to no more than £ 60 to £ 75 . In such a case ...
... century English farm labourer's rate of ten pence to a shilling a day - or about £ 15 a year . This would mean that over a four- or five - year period of indenture , total wages would amount to no more than £ 60 to £ 75 . In such a case ...
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... century servant . It is the hundreds of runaway ads placed in the colonial press by masters hunting escaped servants . In the nineteenth century , the quarry was was the runaway black slave ; in much of the eighteenth century , the ...
... century servant . It is the hundreds of runaway ads placed in the colonial press by masters hunting escaped servants . In the nineteenth century , the quarry was was the runaway black slave ; in much of the eighteenth century , the ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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