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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... kidnapped may have together exceeded ten thousand in certain years ' . This was especially likely during the middle years of the 1600s , when Cromwellian excesses were at their highest in Ireland . We know of many cases of kidnapping ...
... kidnapped may have together exceeded ten thousand in certain years ' . This was especially likely during the middle years of the 1600s , when Cromwellian excesses were at their highest in Ireland . We know of many cases of kidnapping ...
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... kidnapped a sixteen - year - old girl were fined the derisory sum of twelve pence . Such fines reflected both how the courts viewed kidnapping in general and also that magistrates and judges often allowed the accused to pay a sum in ...
... kidnapped a sixteen - year - old girl were fined the derisory sum of twelve pence . Such fines reflected both how the courts viewed kidnapping in general and also that magistrates and judges often allowed the accused to pay a sum in ...
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... kidnapped . Defoe liked his fiction to have contemporary themes and he knew that kidnapping sent shivers down delicate spines as much as it had in the preceding century . The eponymous Colonel Jack is a London orphan who becomes a ...
... kidnapped . Defoe liked his fiction to have contemporary themes and he knew that kidnapping sent shivers down delicate spines as much as it had in the preceding century . The eponymous Colonel Jack is a London orphan who becomes a ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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