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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... claiming the greatest discovery of the new century : ' This cannot be other than the Southern ocean reaching to the regions of China . ' They had , he claimed , found the fabled North - West Passage . It was , of course , nonsense . The ...
... claiming the greatest discovery of the new century : ' This cannot be other than the Southern ocean reaching to the regions of China . ' They had , he claimed , found the fabled North - West Passage . It was , of course , nonsense . The ...
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... claimed headrights on all of them , then sold the headrights , sailed away and when the ship returned to the Chesapeake did it all again , choosing a different settlement at which to land this time . In one case , a servant was claimed ...
... claimed headrights on all of them , then sold the headrights , sailed away and when the ship returned to the Chesapeake did it all again , choosing a different settlement at which to land this time . In one case , a servant was claimed ...
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... claimed a fifty - acre headright for importing him . Later , during the English Civil War , young Lee was sent on a mission to Europe . He returned with a shipload of provisions and took the opportunity to add to the cargo thirty ...
... claimed a fifty - acre headright for importing him . Later , during the English Civil War , young Lee was sent on a mission to Europe . He returned with a shipload of provisions and took the opportunity to add to the cargo thirty ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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