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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... continued to thrive . Justice was very inadequately administered in London . As the great chronicler of immigration , Peter Coldham , notes in Emigrants in Chains . ' In the courts of the metropolis the theft of a horse merited much ...
... continued to thrive . Justice was very inadequately administered in London . As the great chronicler of immigration , Peter Coldham , notes in Emigrants in Chains . ' In the courts of the metropolis the theft of a horse merited much ...
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... continued . The war had created large numbers of widows and orphans , and many of these were shipped to the West Indies . According to Walpole , women and orphans were rounded up from workhouses and prisons . They were , he said ...
... continued . The war had created large numbers of widows and orphans , and many of these were shipped to the West Indies . According to Walpole , women and orphans were rounded up from workhouses and prisons . They were , he said ...
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... continued to be rounded up occasionally and shipped off to cool their heels in the colonies . And even in the farthest outposts of the colonies , Irish continued to be indentured . In Newfoundland in the 153 FOREIGNERS IN THEIR OWN LAND.
... continued to be rounded up occasionally and shipped off to cool their heels in the colonies . And even in the farthest outposts of the colonies , Irish continued to be indentured . In Newfoundland in the 153 FOREIGNERS IN THEIR OWN LAND.
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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