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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... early America as a garden of opportunity airbrush indentured servants out of the picture while focusing on the minority who arrived free . " A creation myth has flourished in which early American settlers are portrayed as free men and ...
... early America as a garden of opportunity airbrush indentured servants out of the picture while focusing on the minority who arrived free . " A creation myth has flourished in which early American settlers are portrayed as free men and ...
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... early 1560s . This was a saga of massacre , torture and atrocity exemplified by the Huguenot captain who wore a necklace of priests ' ears around his neck . Nearly a century later , Pascal wrote of this conflict : ' Men never do evil so ...
... early 1560s . This was a saga of massacre , torture and atrocity exemplified by the Huguenot captain who wore a necklace of priests ' ears around his neck . Nearly a century later , Pascal wrote of this conflict : ' Men never do evil so ...
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... Early American History ' in Smith , Billy G. ( ed . ) , Down and Out in Early America ( 2004 ) O'Callaghan , S. , To Hell or Barbados ( Brandon Press , 2000 ) Oldham , Wilfrid , Britain's Convicts to the Colonies ( Library of Australian ...
... Early American History ' in Smith , Billy G. ( ed . ) , Down and Out in Early America ( 2004 ) O'Callaghan , S. , To Hell or Barbados ( Brandon Press , 2000 ) Oldham , Wilfrid , Britain's Convicts to the Colonies ( Library of Australian ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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