White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in AmericaMainstream Pub., 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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... Richard Kemp reported to London in 1637 . All this was done in an atmosphere of fraud and rip - off . The Chesapeake in the 1630s was swimming with sharks feeding off the headright system . It was easy . Even the 120 WHITE CARGO.
... Richard Kemp reported to London in 1637 . All this was done in an atmosphere of fraud and rip - off . The Chesapeake in the 1630s was swimming with sharks feeding off the headright system . It was easy . Even the 120 WHITE CARGO.
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... headright system . It was easy . Even the dead could qualify for a headright so long as they were on their way to the colony when they died or had once visited . This invited deception and corruption , and after Virginia became a Crown ...
... headright system . It was easy . Even the dead could qualify for a headright so long as they were on their way to the colony when they died or had once visited . This invited deception and corruption , and after Virginia became a Crown ...
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... headright system that we have seen play such a key role in populating the American colonies was from early times used to promote emigration from Ireland . One seventeenth - century planter from Ireland managed to amass an estate of ...
... headright system that we have seen play such a key role in populating the American colonies was from early times used to promote emigration from Ireland . One seventeenth - century planter from Ireland managed to amass an estate of ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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acres Africans Algonquin America Annesley arrived Barbados became began Berkeley Hundred black slaves bondage boys Bradnox Bridewell British Captain Carolina CHAPTER Charles Charles Keeling Chesapeake Christopher claimed colonists colony convicts Coopy court death died Elizabeth emigrants England English enslaved felons followed forced free-willers freedom gaols George Gilbert gold Governor headright headright system History Humphrey Gilbert hundred indentured servants Ireland Irish island James Jamestown kidnapped King labour land later lives London Lord Maryland master merchants Mittelberger months murder Native Americans Negroes numbers Palatines Pennsylvania plantation planters poor Popham Popham colony prisoners Privy Council punishment Queen Raleigh rebellion rebels records reported returned Richard River Robert runaway sailed Scotland Scots sell sent servitude settlement settlers seventeenth century ship Sir Edwin Sandys Sir Thomas Smythe slavery Smith sold Spanish spirit story sugar tobacco took trade transportation Virginia Company voyage whipping white servants William Williamson women wrote young