White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America"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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Masters would be given the option of bringing in servants to be punished there or administering the penalty themselves on their own plantations . ? The extra - time precedent applied to disobedience , too . In addition to a whipping ...
Masters would be given the option of bringing in servants to be punished there or administering the penalty themselves on their own plantations . ? The extra - time precedent applied to disobedience , too . In addition to a whipping ...
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The jury – which would hav been made up mainly of landowners – decided that the ' stripes ' given to the boy before he died were ' not material and he had died of a fever brought on by dropsy or scurvy . During the inquest , another of ...
The jury – which would hav been made up mainly of landowners – decided that the ' stripes ' given to the boy before he died were ' not material and he had died of a fever brought on by dropsy or scurvy . During the inquest , another of ...
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Jack repents his ways and is given his freedom . He becomes a plantation owner and grows critical of how servants are treated . As a woman is taken ill and is carried into a shelter for sick workers , Jack observes : ' I think they ...
Jack repents his ways and is given his freedom . He becomes a plantation owner and grows critical of how servants are treated . As a woman is taken ill and is carried into a shelter for sick workers , Jack observes : ' I think they ...
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WHITE CARGO: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
Avis d'utilisateur - KirkusTwo British journalists unravel a significant history of indentured servitude in the New World.Before the 18th century, when Southern tobacco grandees and West Indian sugar planters imported Africans ... Consulter l'avis complet
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Avis d'utilisateur - Sarah Fournier - GoodreadsRead selected chapters for research on a history paper. His writing is very emotional (if thats the right word). He is trying to make indentured servitude look horrible on the same scale as black slavery almost and his language gets the point across. Very persuasive. Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America |
| Auteurs | Don Jordan, Michael Walsh |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | Mainstream Pub., 2007 |
| ISBN | 1845961951, 9781845961954 |
| Longueur | 320 pages |
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