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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... hundred people and not three hundred and fifty remain , because little food and much labour on public works kills them and , more than all , the discontent in which they live seeing themselves treated as slaves with cruelty.26 ...
... hundred people and not three hundred and fifty remain , because little food and much labour on public works kills them and , more than all , the discontent in which they live seeing themselves treated as slaves with cruelty.26 ...
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... Hundred's indentured servants were treated after they were put to work . There is little more to go on than the records of mortality rates , which were dire across the colony . Of the 1,200 newcomers in 1619 , more than 800 perished in ...
... Hundred's indentured servants were treated after they were put to work . There is little more to go on than the records of mortality rates , which were dire across the colony . Of the 1,200 newcomers in 1619 , more than 800 perished in ...
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... Hundred , where Thomas Coopy's wife and children had been allowed to join him . That Friday , the official death toll on the Berkeley Hundred was eleven . The Coopys were not among those named but Thomas , his wife Joan and their son ...
... Hundred , where Thomas Coopy's wife and children had been allowed to join him . That Friday , the official death toll on the Berkeley Hundred was eleven . The Coopys were not among those named but Thomas , his wife Joan and their son ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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