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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... labour , or slumber over his task he cared not how , nay , the most honest among them would hardly take so much true pains in a week , as now they themselves will do in a day , 29 This dawning of private enterprise coincided with the ...
... labour , or slumber over his task he cared not how , nay , the most honest among them would hardly take so much true pains in a week , as now they themselves will do in a day , 29 This dawning of private enterprise coincided with the ...
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... labour force , including free - willers , deported criminals , street children and the rest – men , women and children had to be inveigled or enticed into slavery to take up the slack in the colonial labour force . Spirits became the ...
... labour force , including free - willers , deported criminals , street children and the rest – men , women and children had to be inveigled or enticed into slavery to take up the slack in the colonial labour force . Spirits became the ...
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... labour market was a crude racket and the servants were coerced and conned into unnecessarily lengthy periods of slavery just as in Maryland or Virginia . The indentured servant did not simply sell his or her labour for a period of time ...
... labour market was a crude racket and the servants were coerced and conned into unnecessarily lengthy periods of slavery just as in Maryland or Virginia . The indentured servant did not simply sell his or her labour for a period of time ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
CHAPTER ONE | 21 |
CHAPTER TWO | 33 |
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