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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... hand in hand . He ordered up written versions of the stories of a sailor called David Ingram who'd been shipwrecked in Florida and spent two years trekking through North America . Ingram had just returned with fantastical tales of ...
... hand in hand . He ordered up written versions of the stories of a sailor called David Ingram who'd been shipwrecked in Florida and spent two years trekking through North America . Ingram had just returned with fantastical tales of ...
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... hand of the company's treasurer , Sir Thomas Smythe . And it would be his hand that planted the seeds of white slavery . Few Englishmen could have appeared better qualified than Smythe to turn Virginia into a success . He is a strangely ...
... hand of the company's treasurer , Sir Thomas Smythe . And it would be his hand that planted the seeds of white slavery . Few Englishmen could have appeared better qualified than Smythe to turn Virginia into a success . He is a strangely ...
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... hand to hand . The Dublin Weekly Journal , for instance , carried an advert in January 1735 offering Irish Protestant emigrants to New York a special deal . Land purchased from the Mohawk Indians could be rented by them for one shilling ...
... hand to hand . The Dublin Weekly Journal , for instance , carried an advert in January 1735 offering Irish Protestant emigrants to New York a special deal . Land purchased from the Mohawk Indians could be rented by them for one shilling ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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